The Big Picture by Matthew Israel
Written in an engaging, straightforward style by prominent art historian Matthew Israel, this book presents ten outstanding examples of contemporary art, each with significant historical or cultural relevance to contemporary art's big picture. Drawn from the fields of photography, painting, performance, installation, video, film, and public art, the works featured here combine to create a bigger picture of the state of contemporary art today. From Andreas Gursky's large-scale color photograph Rhine II to Kara Walker's acclaimed installation in the Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn, each work is carefully explored within the larger perspective of its social and artistic milieu. Articulate and insightful, this book offers readers the ability to consider each work in-depth, while also providing an easily digestible foundation from which to study the often challenging but continually fascinating world of 21st-century art.
-Matthew Israel's extraordinary book gets a score of ten out of tenMapping contemporary art in ten very focused chapters is a brilliant and audacious way of both showing its widest range and giving us the big picture as we read avidly from one subject to the next.- --John Elderfield, Chief Curator Emeritus of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York
MATTHEW ISRAEL is Curator-at-Large at Artsy.net, where he also serves as Director Emeritus and Advisor to the Art Genome Project. He has written extensively for international arts magazines and is the author of Kill for Peace: American Artists Against the Vietnam War.
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| ISBN 13 | 9783791382845 |
| ISBN 10 | 3791382845 |
| Title | The Big Picture |
| Author | Matthew Israel |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Prestel |
| Year published | 2017-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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