Art & today
By: by Eleanor Heartney.
Publisher: Phaidon
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780714845142
Subjects: Art, Modern -- 20th century; Art, Modern -- 21st century; Art criticism
Other titles: Art and today.
Description: A survey of international contemporary art from the 1980s to present that showcases over four hundred of the most significant contemporary artists from around the world and addresses themes such as art and popular culture, art and its institutions, and art and globalism. Resulting in a clear and reasoned perspective on contemporary art that breaks from prescribed classifications to offer a survey as expansive as the art it describes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 426-430) and index.
Table of contents: title: Art & popular culture: the Warhol effect; title: Art & the quotidian object: the transformation of the readymade; title: Art & abstraction: retreat from purity; title: Art & representation: the fiction of realism; title: Art & narrative: postmodern story telling; title: Art & time: from real time to reel time; title: Art & nature and technology: remaking land and body; title: Art & deformation: celebrating human imperfection; title: Art & the body: from object to subject; title: Art & identity: the rise of the hybrid self; title: Art & spirituality: rediscovering transcendence; title: Art & globalism: negotiating a borderless world; title: Art & architecture: the utopian fallacy; title: Art & its institutions: art reflects on itself; title: Art & politics: the rhetoric of dissent; title: Art & audience: reinventing the viewer.