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Contemporary Art

$19.95

Format: Trade Paperback
176 pages
Publisher: Taschen
Published: February 1994
ISBN-10: 3822800759
ISBN-13: 9783822800751

Contemporary Art

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This study is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive survey of contemporary art. Beginning with the 'New Savages' of the late Seventies, Klaus Honnef introduces the various movements of the Eighties. This reworked edition outlines current trends in the international art world. Drawing on the work of 102 artists from 9 different countries, the book contains 190 color plates, and 53 black and white illustrations. This book concentrates not only on the art world, but also on more general events and tendencies in society and culture as a whole. In particular, it directs the reader's attention to changes within the cultural sphere, the price explosion, the rapid proliferation of art galleries, the museum boom, and the fairy-tale success of a number of individual artists. The aim is to explain some of these phenomena in terms of the specific forms of contemporary art. More emphasis is therefore placed on defining artists' attitudes than on analysing significant works. This book proposes that towards the end of the 20th century there has been quite a considerable and profound change in artistic development. The most important results of this change is that the avant-garde has become historical. The two most prominent artists who paved the way for this seemingly paradoxical change from the avant-garde to the 'post-avant-garde' were Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys. The aesthetic discussion in the book therefore begins with this work.