Contemporary Art: Art Since 1970"Taylor charts the ideas and practices of new art across the international spectrum ... shows how contemporary art of the last three decades has been energized not merely by changing technologies of art-making, but by the spread of new museum architecture, by the voice of the critic, and ... by the activity of the powerful international curator ... Reviewing the major controversies of the later twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first, it also includes a discussion of the impact of the internet and digital art. Generously illustrated in color and with a timeline ... with 206 illustrations, 160 in color"--Dustjacket. |
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... structures , made anonymously and defiantly resisting both orthodox Modernist description as well as the entire aesthetic superstructure of the European tradition in fine art [ Fig . 1.6 ] . " Half or more of the best new work in the ...
... structures , made anonymously and defiantly resisting both orthodox Modernist description as well as the entire aesthetic superstructure of the European tradition in fine art [ Fig . 1.6 ] . " Half or more of the best new work in the ...
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... structures and uses of language itself . As Thomas Crow summarized the article's style of address : " Recasting the ... structural element basic to all life in the urban centers of the West , namely the extraordinarily potent function of ...
... structures and uses of language itself . As Thomas Crow summarized the article's style of address : " Recasting the ... structural element basic to all life in the urban centers of the West , namely the extraordinarily potent function of ...
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... structures , using a Constructivist or Minimalist idiom . " These are paintings of prisons , cells and walls , " he then said ; " here , the idealist square becomes the prison . Geometry is revealed as confinement ... The paintings are ...
... structures , using a Constructivist or Minimalist idiom . " These are paintings of prisons , cells and walls , " he then said ; " here , the idealist square becomes the prison . Geometry is revealed as confinement ... The paintings are ...
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