Bibliograph

Art since 1989, Kelly Grovier

Type

Label

Art since 1989, Kelly Grovier

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Art since 1989

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

907140210

Responsibility statement

Kelly Grovier

Series statement

World of art

Summary

The years since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 have seen the rise of a new freedom to define art--Who makes it? Where can it be found? What is its commercial value?--and, consequently, the reevaluation of art's place in society. Kelly Grovier surveys the dynamic developments in art practice worldwide since 1989, focusing on artists whose fresh visual vocabulary and innovation reflect these past turbulent decades. The book's ten chapters examine the key themes in contemporary art--portraiture in the age of face transplants and facial recognition software, political activism, science, and religion, to name a few--by artists including Jeff Koons, Louise Bourgeois, Damien Hirst, George Condo, Marlene Dumas, Sean Scully, Cindy Sherman, Banksy, Ai Weiwei, Antony Gormley, Christo and Jean-Claude, Jenny Holzer, Chuck Close, and Cornelia Parker. A chapter-length timeline at the end of the book traces the evolution of art from 1989 to today by closely examining one key artwork from each year

Table Of Contents

Face time: reinventing the portrait -- You are here: seeing space in contemporary art -- The seen and the unseen: death, god and religion -- Streets and struggles: uprisings and unrest -- Fleshed out: the body and contemporary art -- The long now: time and history in contemporary art -- Event horizons: science and contemporary art -- Colours true and false: the new abstract art -- The language generation: using words in art -- Timeline: the key detail

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