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100 1 $aGodfrey, Tony,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe story of contemporary art /$cTony Godfrey.
264 1 $aCambridge, Massachusetts :$bMIT Press,$c[2020]
264 4 $c©2020
300 $a280 pages :$billustrations (chiefly color) ;$c27 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$bsti$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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386 $mGender group:$ngdr$aMen$2lcdgt
386 $mNationality/regional group:$nnat$aFilipinos$2lcdgt
386 $mOccupational/field of activity group:$nocc$aArt museum curators$2lcsh
500 $a"Published by arrangement with Thames & Hudson Ltd, London by the MIT Press"--Title page verso
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: On contemporary art and artists --$tThe wreckage of Modernism and after: 1945-1979 --$tThe return of painting: the early 1980s --$tTaking the photograph seriously: the 1980s continued --$tSculpture, installations or commodities? Around 1987 --$tNational art or global art? 1989 --$tFor a community, oneself or one's soul? The late 1990s --$tThe spectacular or the everyday? 2000-2004 --$tStorytelling or abstraction? 2005-2009 --$tAuction art or Biennale art? 2010-2014 --$tArt in the age of surveillance capitalism: 2015 onwards.
520 $aWhat 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 before. From the 1960s, where Gombrich's account concludes, artists began to abandon traditional forms of art and started to make work that questioned art's very definition. This is where Godfrey picks up the story. Developments in contemporary art have followed no straightforward line of progress or sequence of movements. Recognizing this, Tony Godfrey creates a narrative from a series of often dramatic creative conflicts and arguments around what art is or should be. From object versus sculpture and painting versus conceptual to local versus global, gallery versus wider world, The Story of Contemporary Art traces a history in terms of drastic changes in social and political life over the last sixty years. How do we experience being human in a world that seems to change so quickly? In exploring art's relationship to this question, Godfrey asserts that multiple voices must be heard: critics, theorists, curators and collectors, but also audiences and artists themselves. Key to the book is the story of how a perception that art was made almost exclusively by white men from North America and Western Europe has been radically overturned.
650 0 $aArt, Modern$y20th century.
650 0 $aArt, Modern$y21st century.
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