Just as Picasso’s Guernica or Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa survive as powerful cultural documents of their time, there will be works from our own era that will endure for generations to come. But which ones?

‘One of the most exciting new art critics ... every page is turned with a bang’
– Aesthetica

This bold and engaging book, written by one of the freshest and most exciting voices in cultural criticism, predicts which artists and artworks from the past two decades will come to define our age through their power to question, provoke and inspire.

This is essential and enjoyable reading for all those working with and studying contemporary culture, as well as for the general art-lover keen to find a clear path through the maze of global contemporary art.

Kelly Grovier is a poet, historian and cultural critic. He is co-founder of the international scholarly journal European Romantic Review and the author of Art Since 1989, also published by Thames & Hudson.