ArtReview's January-February 2020 Books Roundup: Publications on Transition, Contemporaneity, and Postpatriarchal Worlds

ArtReview's January-February 2020 issue features a roundup of recent publications exploring themes of change, identity, and contemporary thought. Paul B. Preciado's 'An Apartment on Uranus' collects 68 texts originally published in Libération from 2013 to 2018, examining gender transition, citizenship, and migration through a corporeal lens. Terry Smith's 'Art to Come' offers a historiography of contemporaneity, analyzing buzzwords like globalization, the Anthropocene, and decolonization. Ed Atkins's 'Old Food' is a genre-resistant text following his 2017 exhibition of the same name, featuring weeping CGI characters and period costumes, using stream-of-consciousness prose set in the late-1990s UK. Tai Shani's 'Our Fatal Magic' publishes her 2018 performance project 'DC: Semiramis', a collection of experimental prose monologues from an allegorical postpatriarchal city inspired by Christine de Pizan's 1405 work. 'Creative Chicago: An Interview Marathon' presents transcriptions of conversations by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Alison Cuddy with creatives including Dawoud Bey, Theaster Gates, and Jeanne Gang. 'Visions and Ecstasies' includes four texts by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) written after a near-fatal pneumonia during pregnancy, blending trauma with Greek mythology and modernist art. These publications, ranging from $8.95 to $30.95, were highlighted in the October 2019 issue of ArtReview.