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The Story of Contemporary Art

English

By (author): Tony Godfrey

A lively introduction to and history of international contemporary art from 1960 to the present.

What 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 Gombrichs account concludes, artists began to abandon traditional forms of art and started to make work that questioned arts 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 arts 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. Compelling and intelligent, but never academic, this book tells us how. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 1080g
  • Dimensions: 186 x 242mm
  • Publication Date: 22 Feb 2024
  • Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780500297605

About Tony Godfrey

Tony Godfrey former Programme Director of the MA in Contemporary Art at Sothebys Institute London now lives in Manila where he works as a curator with artists from South-East Asia. He has written for the Burlington Magazine and Art in America and is the author of Conceptual Art and Painting Today as well as numerous exhibition catalogues.

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