Story of contemporary art

What does it mean? Is it really art? Why does it cost so much?" While these questions are perpetually asked about contemporary art, they are not the questions that E.H. Gombrich set out to answer in his seminal book 'The Story of Art'. Contemporary art is very different from what came...

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Main Author Godfrey, Tony (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published London : Thames & Hudson, [2020]
Subjects
Art, Modern > 20th century.
Art, Modern > 21st century.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780500775820
9780262366045
9780262044103
9780500239872
Physical Description1 online zdroj (280 stran) : ilustrace

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: On contemporary art and artists
  • The wreckage of Modernism and after: 1945-1979
  • The return of painting: the early 1980s
  • Taking the photograph seriously: the 1980s continued
  • Sculpture, installations or commodities? Around 1987
  • National art or global art? 1989
  • For a community, oneself or one's soul? The late 1990s
  • The spectacular or the everyday? 2000-2004
  • Storytelling or abstraction? 2005-2009
  • Auction art or Biennale art? 2010-2014
  • Art in the age of surveillance capitalism: 2015 onwards.

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