Art Today by Edward Lucie-Smith
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
Art Today
Summary
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
Art Today Summary
Art Today Reviews
A triumph.-Independent on Sunday
Exhaustive and up-to-the-minute survey.-Times Literary Supplement
Takes on the intimidating task of tracing developments in painting and sculpture since 1960. Remarkably, it succeeds.-The Sunday Times
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.-Scotland on Sunday
A 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.-The TimesWhat 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.-Guardian
Lucid and informative text... Plentiful colour pics.-Galleries
Phaidon'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, Art Today somehow seems to have come of age: it'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.-Art Monthly
About Edward Lucie-Smith
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.
Table of Contents
Pop and after; the survival of abstractions; minimal and conceptual; land art, light and space, body art; neo-Dada, Arte Povera and installation; neo-Expressionism; Realism in America; Post-Modernism and Neo-Classicism; British figurative painting; new British sculpture; new art in New York; out of New York; Latin America; Perestroika art; the Far East; African and Afro-Caribbean art; racial minorities; feminist and gay.
Additional information
GOR002585640
9780714838885
0714838888
Art Today by Edward Lucie-Smith
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Phaidon Press Ltd
19990916
512
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