Avant-garde and After: Rethinking Art NowFor a course on Contemporary Art. Offering a critical perspective rather than a traditional survey, this provocative text explores the art of the last twenty years the latter 1970s, the 1980s, and the first half of the 1990s in both a thematic and chronological fashion. Using an engaging and approachable style and an abundance of color illustrations, it takes a long look at dominant tendencies in contemporary art in the United States, Western and Eastern Europe, and Russia and provides a series of challenging view points on the most advanced art forms, themes, and issues. |
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