ART & TODAY is the most comprehensive survey of contemporary art of the past three decades. The book's original thematic organization gives a welcome order to the flux of contemporary art. Over four hundred of the most significant contemporary artists from around the world are represented, including emerging as well as established figures. The book's lively, straightforward, and authoritative writing makes the volume a perfect introduction to contemporary art for students in the field as well as anyone interested in the subject. This book is the follow-up to Phaidon's extremely successful ART TODAY.
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The history of contemporary art, writes Heartney (Postmodernism), a contributing editor to Art in America, offers a tapestry of stories in an innovative, intellectually vigorous and superbly illustrated survey. In this era of anarchic pluralism, master narratives are inappropriate, and Heartney thus organizes her vividly written study thematically (Art and Time, Art and Narrative) rather than chronologically, and artists range from Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons and other high kitsch creators to the participatory works of artists such as Nam June Paik and Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Heartney's focus is sharp and selective, and her approach complexly postmodern: the ever-proliferating universe of Matthew Ritchie's installations are discussed in the context of Roland Barthes, Cindy Sherman's photographs as Bakhtinian carnival. Participatory art, Heartney argues in her last chapter, is a direct challenge to cherished assumptions about the meaning of art, whose democratization may be the most significant force in art today. This exceptional survey will have wide appeal—from the generalist to the scholar interested in a work that's both perceptive and energetic. (May)
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Eleanor Heartney has been a contributing editor to Art in America and Artpress for more than ten years. Her recent publications include Postmodernism (Movements in Modern Art), and Critical Condition: American Culture at the Crossroads.
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Art is an umbrella term that encompasses a wide diversity of formats in which men and women work to create items of beauty,
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Art is an umbrella term that encompasses a wide diversity of formats in which men and women work to create items of beauty that range from the simple to the complex and are in an continual state of evolving discovery as new techniques and mediums for artistic expression are developed with each new generation of artists. "Art & Today" is a massive, coffee-table compendium of contemporary artworks; the one common aspect of the 400 emerging artists surveyed is that they all engage in a postmodern willingness to transcend traditional boundaries. Full-color illustrations on almost every page introduce the reader to a vast variety of artistic creations, from painting to sculpture to photography and much more, while extensive essays offer insights into the backgrounds, themes, and messages of the individual artists. Organized around a set of sixteen themes ranging from "Art & Popular Culture" to "Art & Nature and Technology" to "Art & Globalism" and "Art & Politics", Art & Today lives up to its self-appointed Herculean labor of surveying what today's art as a whole has to say about humans and the world we live in. Highly recommended especially for public library and art book collections.
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Use it as a text book,
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I truly love this book because of its 'practicality'. As I lecture studio base I use it habitually in my classes especially when students are undergoing initial Art research. I use it as text book on reference point in Art context.
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This is a great book to either flip through, read parts of, or keep in your library. I periodically read this book again and find something i missed the last time
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