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The Story of Contemporary Art

The Story of Contemporary Art

Godfrey, Tony

Hardcover

Art HistoryConceptual Art

Publisher Price: $39.95

ISBN10: 0262044102
ISBN13: 9780262044103
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Nov 10 2020
Pages: 280
Weight: 2.75
Height: 1.00 Width: 8.10 Depth: 10.40
Language: English
An instant classic--a lively new introduction to contemporary art that stretches from Andy Warhol's Brillo boxes to Marina Abramovic's performance art to today's biennale circuit and million-dollar auctions.

Encountering a work of contemporary art, a viewer might ask, What does it mean? Is it really art? and Why does it cost so much? These are not the questions that E. H. Gombrich set out to answer in his magisterial The Story of Art. Contemporary art seems totally unlike what came before it, departing from the road map supplied by Raphael, Dürer, Rembrandt, and other European masters.

In The Story of Contemporary Art, Tony Godfrey picks up where Gombrich left off, offering a lively introduction to contemporary art that stretches from Andy Warhol's Brillo boxes to Marina Abramovic's performance art to today's biennale circuit and million-dollar auctions. Godfrey, a curator and writer on contemporary art, chronicles important developments in pop art, minimalism, conceptualism, installation art, performance art, and beyond.

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