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The Perpetual Guest keyword-commons Jan Švankmajer and the BrothersThe idea of contemporary art sometimes allows us to pretend we have made a clean break with the past. In The Perpetual Guest, poet and critic Barry Schwabsky demonstrates that any robust understanding of arts present must also account for the ongoing life and changing fortunes of its past. In surveying the art world of this past decade, Schwabsky attends not only to its most significant newer facesamong them, Kara Walker, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ai Weiwei,