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Yes, it's shocking and sensational and makes headlines, but is it art? What happened to beauty and loveliness? Modern works by "Brit Brats" and other explosive artists are explored in this knowing book that combines hard art historical information with refreshingly candid, wonderfully readable reflections on today's dynamic art scene.
Each of six chapters becomes a journey, a tour around the world to art galleries, museums, and artists' studios, a trip back and forth in time-from the earliest heroic beginnings of modern art to the circuslike atmosphere of Sensation, the famous/infamous exhibition seen recently by record-breaking museum crowds on both sides of the Atlantic. These gorgeously illustrated rides are by turns smooth, surprising, alarming, but they are always informative and entertaining in answering such essential questions as: Will future generations accept today's art as a vivid expression of how life was really lived during the 1990s? Or will they scratch their heads and wonder how we could have put up with such stuff-how we could have valued it as art?
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Matthew Collings is a British artist and author whose previous writings published in England include Blimey! From Bohemia to Britpop: the London Art World from Francis Bacon to Damien Hirst and It Hurts: New York Art from Warhol to Now.
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- PublisherWEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0297842927
- ISBN 13 9780297842927
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Modern art is a cow cut in half with a chainsaw, floating in a glass tank. It is a house cast in concrete, or the London Underground map with all the station names changed. But what does it all mean? What is "modern art"? Why do we like/hate it? Can anybody do it? Is it always modern? Who started it? This is the story of modern art and our modern attitude to it. It combines hard information on major artists and movements - what really happened - with ordinary reflections. Modern art is intimidating and confusing to many, but Matthew Collins seeks to cut through this barrier by asking all the puzzling questions. He compares Goya to Duchamp and Picasso, Rothko to Yves Klein, and he looks at the role of African tribal art in the rise of modernism and punk rock in the rise of post-modernism. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR001864545
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