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Art & Today | 
 enlarge | Author: Eleanor Heartney
Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc.
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 138874
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.6
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 10.2 x 2.1
ISBN: 0714845140
Dewey Decimal Number: 709.04
EAN: 9780714845142
ASIN: 0714845140
Publication Date: April 6, 2008
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ART & TODAY is the most comprehensive survey of contemporary art of the past three decades. The book's original thematic organization gives a welcome order to the flux of contemporary art. Over four hundred of the most significant contemporary artists from around the world are represented, including emerging as well as established figures. The book's lively, straightforward, and authoritative writing makes the volume a perfect introduction to contemporary art for students in the field as well as anyone interested in the subject. This book is the follow-up to Phaidon's extremely successful ART TODAY.
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Art is an umbrella term that encompasses a wide diversity of formats in which men and women work to create items of beauty May 5, 2008
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Art is an umbrella term that encompasses a wide diversity of formats in which men and women work to create items of beauty that range from the simple to the complex and are in an continual state of evolving discovery as new techniques and mediums for artistic expression are developed with each new generation of artists. "Art & Today" is a massive, coffee-table compendium of contemporary artworks; the one common aspect of the 400 emerging artists surveyed is that they all engage in a postmodern willingness to transcend traditional boundaries. Full-color illustrations on almost every page introduce the reader to a vast variety of artistic creations, from painting to sculpture to photography and much more, while extensive essays offer insights into the backgrounds, themes, and messages of the individual artists. Organized around a set of sixteen themes ranging from "Art & Popular Culture" to "Art & Nature and Technology" to "Art & Globalism" and "Art & Politics", Art & Today lives up to its self-appointed Herculean labor of surveying what today's art as a whole has to say about humans and the world we live in. Highly recommended especially for public library and art book collections.
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