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| SKU | 9780714838885 |
|---|---|
| Title | Art Today |
| Author Description | Edward Lucie-Smith |
| Uri | store/art/art-today-9780714838885/ |
| Web Author Description | Edward Lucie-Smith is well known as a poet, critic, broadcaster and writer on art and culture. His many books include Movements in Art since 1945, Race, Sex and Gender in Contemporary Art,American Realism and Art Deco Painting, also published by Phaidon. |
| webLongDescription | This book is the definitive overview of the richest, most controversial and perhaps most thoroughly confusing epoch in the whole history of the visual arts: the period from 1960 to the present. Although the modern movement - unchallenged for the last six decades - has lost its dominance, it has been replaced by no single new orthodoxy. Artists, critics and the public alike are now confronted by a situation of unprecedented variety and complexity. Edward Lucie-Smith is a close and well-informed watcher of the contemporary scene, combining a critical eye with a historian's insight into wider trends. Art Today reflects the dramatic changes that have swept across the art world since 1960 to challenge all the old assumptions and certainties. As he reviews the worldwide explosion of exciting new work, he illustrates with erudition and clarity that the art world is no longer hierarchical but plural, and that its structures, if they exist at all, are merely transient. Art Today provides a map of an unstable world. With unfailing passion and acute aesthetic sensitivity, the author charts the progress of contemporary developments to elucidate their sources and interrelationships, many of them breathtakingly unexpected. This volume embodies a magnum opus in itself, as it brings to life the work of over 500 outstanding contemporary artists, all analysed in detail and illustrated in stunning colour. Since its first publication in 1995, Art Today has become internationally recognized as an indispensable introduction to contemporary art. A principal reason for its success has been the author's ability to write without polemics, and to avoid impenetrable abstract theory and jargon. For students and anybody else confronting contemporary art for the first time, this is the ideal introduction. Well-organized, informative, authoritative and thought-provoking, it is the sole book available that provides both a clear and a comprehensive guide to the subject. It is now published in paperback format at an outstandingly competitive price. |
| Binding | Paperback |
| Size | Size: 290 x 250 mm (11 3/8 x 9 7/8 in) |
| Pages | Pages: 512 |
| Illustrations | 536 |
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His many books include \u003ci\u003eMovements in Art since 1945,\u003c/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Race\u003c/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Sex and Gender in Contemporary Art,\u003c/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Realism \u003c/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Art Deco Painting,\u003c/i\u003e also published by Phaidon.\u003c/p\u003e","webDescription":"Art Today by Edward Lucie-Smith. A seminal survey of the visual arts since the 1960s. Order online from the Phaidon Store.","webKeywords":"","webLongDescription":"This book is the definitive overview of the richest, most controversial and perhaps most thoroughly confusing epoch in the whole history of the visual arts: the period from 1960 to the present. Although the modern movement - unchallenged for the last six decades - has lost its dominance, it has been replaced by no single new orthodoxy. 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With unfailing passion and acute aesthetic sensitivity, the author charts the progress of contemporary developments to elucidate their sources and interrelationships, many of them breathtakingly unexpected. This volume embodies a magnum opus in itself, as it brings to life the work of over 500 outstanding contemporary artists, all analysed in detail and illustrated in stunning colour. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSince its first publication in 1995, \u003ci\u003eArt Today\u003c/i\u003e has become internationally recognized as an indispensable introduction to contemporary art. A principal reason for its success has been the author's ability to write without polemics, and to avoid impenetrable abstract theory and jargon. For students and anybody else confronting contemporary art for the first time, this is the ideal introduction. Well-organized, informative, authoritative and thought-provoking, it is the sole book available that provides both a clear and a comprehensive guide to the subject. It is now published in paperback format at an outstandingly competitive price.","webReviews":"\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;A triumph.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Exhaustive and up-to-the-minute survey.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Takes on the intimidating task of tracing developments in painting and sculpture since 1960. Remarkably, it succeeds.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The most comprehensive survey attempted so far... Written with authority, perception, and challenging judgement... An invaluable vessel of reliable reference in a sea of confusion.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eScotland on Sunday\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\nA coffee-table corker of a book... This spectacular guide examines the history of the visual arts from 1960 to the present... Manages to do so without ever descending into a stodgy textbook style. For aficionados and novices alike, this is the essential guide to art today.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;What a treasure. This history of art since 1960 is so huge that it's hard to believe that anything could be left out. Lucie-Smith, the seasoned author, classifies the artworks by school (neo-Dada, perestroika, New York) but no amount of scholarship can constrain the fantastic, fertile variety of works on show here. Stunning colour reproductions appear on each page, making this collection very good value for money.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Lucid and informative text... Plentiful colour pics.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eGalleries\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Phaidon\u0026#8217;s designers should congratulate themselves for having produced a book whose selection and placement of images is really suberb... Allows... us to have access to a real cross-section of work, to have an opportunity to consider it, however briefly, and not to remain cramped within the confines of a particular decade... As a paperback, \u003cem\u003eArt Today\u003c/em\u003e somehow seems to have come of age: it\u0026#8217;s the right kind of format, however heavy it feels. As a document of its period it will probably continue to supersede for a long time all other books that dwell so lovingly upon more ephemeral aspects of total modernity.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eArt Monthly\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","webShortDescription":"The definitive overview of the richest, most controversial and perhaps most thoroughly confusing epoch in the whole history of the visual arts: the period from 1960 to the present"}