Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980 |  | Authors: Jean Robertson, Craig McDaniel
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
Buy New: $39.95
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Sales Rank: 1,254,916
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Pages: 416
ISBN: 0199797072
EAN: 9780199797073
ASIN: 0199797072
Publication Date: June 1, 2012 (In 4 Days)
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Product Description
Offering a unique thematic approach to recent art history, Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980, Third Edition, focuses on eight central ideas recurring in art over the past few decades: identity, the body, time, memory, place, language, science, and spirituality.
Featuring 160 vivid illustrations (23 in color and 137 in black and white), this wide-ranging introduction presents artworks that exemplify a variety of materials, techniques, theoretical viewpoints, and stylistic approaches, by artists from diverse ethnic, cultural, and geographic backgrounds.
Concise, engaging, and accessible, this thought-provoking volume challenges readers to think actively and critically about the ideas expressed in contemporary art.
New to this Edition
* Updated throughout with the most recent scholarship, research, and developments in the field
* A new chapter on memory as a theme in contemporary art and culture
* An updated timeline that reflects world events and developments in art and pop culture through today
* 3 new artist profiles
* 31 additional illustrations
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