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Title
Art since 1989 / Kelly Grovier.
Author
Grovier, Kelly, author.
ISBN
9780500204269 (paperback)
0500204268 (paperback)
0500204268 (paperback)
Published
London : Thames & Hudson, 2015.
Language
English
Description
224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Call Number
N6490 .G7244 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
709.05
Summary
The years since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 have seen the rise of a new freedom to define art--Who makes it? Where can it be found? What is its commercial value?--and, consequently, the reevaluation of art's place in society. Kelly Grovier surveys the dynamic developments in art practice worldwide since 1989, focusing on artists whose fresh visual vocabulary and innovation reflect these past turbulent decades. The book's ten chapters examine the key themes in contemporary art--portraiture in the age of face transplants and facial recognition software, political activism, science, and religion, to name a few--by artists including Jeff Koons, Louise Bourgeois, Damien Hirst, George Condo, Marlene Dumas, Sean Scully, Cindy Sherman, Banksy, Ai Weiwei, Antony Gormley, Christo and Jean-Claude, Jenny Holzer, Chuck Close, and Cornelia Parker. A chapter-length timeline at the end of the book traces the evolution of art from 1989 to today by closely examining one key artwork from each year.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
World of art.
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Table of Contents
Face time : reinventing the portrait
You are here : seeing space in contemporary art
The seen and unseen : death, God and religion
Streets and struggles : uprisings and unrest
Fleshed out : the body and contemporary art
The long now : time and history in contemporary art
Colours true and false : the new abstract art
The language generation : using words in art
Timeline : the key detail.
You are here : seeing space in contemporary art
The seen and unseen : death, God and religion
Streets and struggles : uprisings and unrest
Fleshed out : the body and contemporary art
The long now : time and history in contemporary art
Colours true and false : the new abstract art
The language generation : using words in art
Timeline : the key detail.