{"product_id":"the-story-of-contemporary-art-isbn-9780262044103","title":"The Story of Contemporary Art","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn instant classic—a lively new introduction to contemporary art that stretches from Andy Warhol's Brillo boxes to Marina Abramović's performance art to today's biennale circuit and million-dollar auctions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEncountering 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Art\u003c\/i\u003e. Contemporary art seems totally unlike what came before it, departing from the road map supplied by Raphael, Dürer, Rembrandt, and other European masters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Contemporary Art\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 Abramović'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.PREFACE\u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e On Contemporary Art and Artists\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER 1\u003cbr\u003e The Wreckage of Modernism and After: 1945–1979\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER 2\u003cbr\u003e The Return to Painting: The Early 1980s\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER 3\u003cbr\u003e Taking the Photograph Seriously: The 1980s Continued\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER 4\u003cbr\u003e Sculpture, Installations or Commodities? Around 1987\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER 5\u003cbr\u003e National Art or Global Art? 1989\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER 6\u003cbr\u003e For a Community, Oneself or One’s Soul? The Late 1990s\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER 7\u003cbr\u003e The Spectacular or the Everyday? 2000–2004\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER 8\u003cbr\u003e Storytelling or Abstraction? 2005–2009\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER 9\u003cbr\u003e Auction Art or Biennale Art? 2010–2014\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER 10\u003cbr\u003e Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism: 2015 Onwards\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Picture Credits\u003cbr\u003e Index\"Godfrey writes in an accessible and blessedly jargon-free manner, and he ranges widely, featuring contemporary artists from all corners of the globe.\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e– The Washington Post Book World\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eTony Godfrey is the author of \u003ci\u003eConceptual Painting\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePainting Today\u003c\/i\u003e and has contributed to \u003ci\u003eArt in America\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eBurlington Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and numerous exhibition catalogs. Formerly Programme Director of the MA in Contemporary Art at Sotheby's Institute in London, he is a curator based in Manila.Kuspit’s question, albeit in a different form, is worth repeating: who do you believe in, Beuys or Warhol? Your answer will reveal much about how you view life and the world at large. Ask the same question of any two artists you find in the later chapters of this book. Who do you believe in?\u003cbr\u003e As then, in the late 1980s, so it is now. Contemporary art, in all its many manifestations, echoes the problems we face in our daily lives: how to act, how to think, what to believe. Contemporary art can be entertaining, provocative, even irritating. Occasionally it is stunning, often it is difficult, but it is always alive. That is why it makes us think, why it puzzles and intrigues us – it is our world. \u003cbr\u003e In the end, of course, we can never fully explain the most interesting and intriguing works of art. If we could, there would have been little point in making them. What is essential is that we experience them and think about them for ourselves. In writing this book, my aim has been to provide a context in which to better understand and experience the artworks of today by sharing my own experiences and thoughts.\u003cbr\u003e Obviously, the world of art today is very different from the one that Gombrich wrote about, but much of what he said still rings true: ‘One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one stands before them. They seem to be as inexhaustible and unpredictable as real human beings. It is an exciting world of its own with its own strange laws and its adventures. Nobody should think he knows about it all for nobody does. Nothing, perhaps, is more important than just this: that to enjoy these works we must have a fresh mind, one which is ready to catch every hint and to respond to every hidden harmony: a mind, most of all, not cluttered up with long high-sounding words and ready-made phrases.’","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303117607141,"sku":"NP9780262044103","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262044103.jpg?v=1767741672","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-story-of-contemporary-art-isbn-9780262044103","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}