Trending: Contemporary Art Now!
Trending: Contemporary Art Now!

Author: Women's Caucus Art

Publisher:

Published: 2016-01-06

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9781523292622

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Exhibition Catalog for "Trending: Contemporary Art Now" by the Women's Caucus for Art, hosted by the Target Gallery at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, juried by Elizabeth Garvey, Simon Garvey Art Access and Exhibition Director Karen Gutfreund, Artist/Curator. ARTISTS (displayed at the Target Gallery's and Catalog): Sarah Boyts Yoder, Amy Cannestra, Sara DiDonato, Blond Jenny, Blythe King, Gayle Lorraine, Stacy Rexrode, Trina Smith, Rebecca Starry, Kate Walker, Margi Weir, and Sarah West. CATALOG ARTISTS (in catalog only): Kayla Antiel, Jennifer Beinhacker, Rouzanna Berberian, Sarah Bielski, Karen Bright, Barbara Bruch, Amy Cannestra, Marah Carpenter, Jenny Casey, Sara DiDonato, Roz Dimon, Emily Duong, Hannah Freeman, Shawna Gibbs, Hai Ri Han, Emanuela Harris-Sintamarian, Shelley Heffler, Patricia Ingersoll, Blond Jenny, Krista Jurisich, Joanna Kidd, Tara Kopp, Beth Lakamp, Lauren Lake, Uma Rani Lyli, Katrina Majkut, Natalya Tali Margolin, Soni Martin, Rosemary Meza-DesPlas, Seren Moran, Andrea Morganstern, Laura Morrison, Jane Allen Nodine, AnaMarie Paredes, Wen Redmond, Stacy Rexrode, Stephanie Robison, Jennifer Rodgers, Claudia Samper, Sally Schluter, Sondra Schwetman, Kathryn Shinko, Pamela Shipley, Marlene Siff, Meg Stein, Rhonda M. Thomas-Urdang, Yana Verba, Sarah West, Elizabeth White, Jordann Wine, Jenna Wright, and Deb Young + Francisco Diaz.

How to Read Contemporary Art
How to Read Contemporary Art

Author: Michael Wilson

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Published: 2013-05-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781419707537

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"Today's artists create work that's challenging, complicated, and often perplexing, and this book offers a guide to understanding-and enjoying- the wide range of works on display in museums and galleries worldwide. Organized alphabetically, the book includes more than two hundred works of art made in the last twenty years by living artists from all over the globe, encompassing photography, installation, sculpture, painting, video art, perfomance, and more. Author Michael Wilson explores the impact of a broad selection of the most prominent artists at work around the world, including Francis Alys, Allora & Calzadilla, Luc Tuymans, and Marina Abramovic." - Excerpt from back cover.

When the Machine Made Art
When the Machine Made Art

Author: Grant D. Taylor

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2014-04-10

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1623565618

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Considering how culturally indispensable digital technology is today, it is ironic that computer-generated art was attacked when it burst onto the scene in the early 1960s. In fact, no other twentieth-century art form has elicited such a negative and hostile response. When the Machine Made Art examines the cultural and critical response to computer art, or what we refer to today as digital art. Tracing the heated debates between art and science, the societal anxiety over nascent computer technology, and the myths and philosophies surrounding digital computation, Taylor is able to identify the destabilizing forces that shape and eventually fragment the computer art movement.

Magritte and Contemporary Art
Magritte and Contemporary Art

Author: René Magritte

Publisher: Ludion

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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Essays by Michel Draguet, Dickram Tashjian, Sara Cochran, Theresa Papanikolas, Thierry de Duve and Stephanie Barron. Introduction by Stephanie Barron.

Modern Art in the USA
Modern Art in the USA

Author: Patricia Hills

Publisher: Pearson

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780130361387

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This chronologically organized and comprehensive anthology of readings tells the whole story of art in America from 1900 to the present. It focuses on the themes, issues, and controversies that occurred throughout the century--using selections that are contemporary with the art--by artists, critics, exhibition organizers, poets, politicians, and other writers on culture. Some recurring themes and issues include issues of identity; the changing nature of modernism and modernity; nationalism; art as individual or community expression; the nature of public art; and the role of criticism, censorship, and government intervention. Texts by well-known writers include Meyer Schapiro, Clement Greenberg, Michael Fried, Donald Kuspit, and Kate Linker. A guide for those interested in both the standard interpretations of American art and in alternative readings.

South African Art Now
South African Art Now

Author: Sue Williamson

Publisher: Harper Design

Published: 2009-10-27

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13:

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A richly illustrated collection combining moving history with stunning contemporary art, South African Art Now is the first book to document the role of art and artists in the evolution of today's post-apartheid South Africa. Artist and author Sue Williamson explores five decades of South African art, from early political art in the 1960s (during the apartheid years) to the thought-provoking works that grabbed the international art market’s interest a generation later. Featuring the work of 90 artists and more than 500 color images, and with an insightful foreword from Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, South African Art Now is a valuable resource for collectors, curators, and contemporary art enthusiasts.

The Art of Looking
The Art of Looking

Author: Lance Esplund

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2018-11-27

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0465094678

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A veteran art critic helps us make sense of modern and contemporary art The landscape of contemporary art has changed dramatically during the last hundred years: from Malevich's 1915 painting of a single black square and Duchamp's 1917 signed porcelain urinal to Jackson Pollock's midcentury "drip" paintings; Chris Burden's "Shoot" (1971), in which the artist was voluntarily shot in the arm with a rifle; Urs Fischer's "You" (2007), a giant hole dug in the floor of a New York gallery; and the conceptual and performance art of today's Ai Weiwei and Marina Abramovic. The shifts have left the art-viewing public (understandably) perplexed. In The Art of Looking, renowned art critic Lance Esplund demonstrates that works of modern and contemporary art are not as indecipherable as they might seem. With patience, insight, and wit, Esplund guides us through the last century of art and empowers us to approach and appreciate it with new eyes. Eager to democratize genres that can feel inaccessible, Esplund encourages viewers to trust their own taste, guts, and common sense. The Art of Looking will open the eyes of viewers who think that recent art is obtuse, nonsensical, and irrelevant, as well as the eyes of those who believe that the art of the past has nothing to say to our present.

Contemporary Art in the Middle East
Contemporary Art in the Middle East

Author: Paul Sloman

Publisher: Black Dog Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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This is the first in the cutting-edge ARTWORLD series which opens up the most challenging and underexposed art scenes in the world, which contains a collection of essays and art works, showcasing artists from the Middle East, in a collection that defies fixed categories, shifting instead through different artistic registers according to more subtle themes.

Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art

Author: Terry Smith

Publisher: Laurence King

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781856697163

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Contemporary Art: World Currents argues that, in recent decades, a worldwide shift from modern to contemporary art has occurred. This has not, however, been a uniform change from one phase or styles in the history of art to another. Rather artists everywhere have embraced the contemporary world's teeming multiplicity, its proliferating differences and its challenging complexities. Alongside more that 370 key works, Terry Smith shows how contemporary art achieved definitive force in the markets and museums of the major art centres during the 1980s and then became a global phenomenon as artworlds everywhere began to connect more closely. New communicative technologies and expanding social media are now shaping the future of art. This book breaks new ground in tracing how modern, traditional and indigenous art became contemporary in each cultural region of the world. Diversity - the contemporaneity of difference - not a convergence towards sameness, Smith argues, is what makes today's art contemporary.

The Story of Contemporary Art
The Story of Contemporary Art

Author: Tony Godfrey

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2020-11-10

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 0262366045

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A lively introduction to the rich and diverse history of contemporary art over the past 60 years—from Modernism and minimalism to artists like Andy Warhol and Marina Abramović. Accessible and with lavish illustrations, this is the perfect gift for art history fans and anyone looking for a new, more inclusive perspective on ‘the old boys’ club.’ Encountering a work of contemporary art, a viewer might ask, "What does it mean?" "Is it really art?" and "Why does it cost so much?" These are not the questions that E. H. Gombrich set out to answer in his magisterial The Story of Art. Contemporary art seems totally unlike what came before it, departing from the road map supplied by Raphael, Dürer, Rembrandt, and other European masters. In The Story of Contemporary Art, Tony Godfrey picks up where Gombrich left off, offering a lively introduction to contemporary art that stretches from Andy Warhol’s Brillo boxes to Marina Abramović’s performance art to today’s biennale circuit and million-dollar auctions. Godfrey, a curator and writer on contemporary art, chronicles important developments in pop art, minimalism, conceptualism, installation art, performance art, and beyond.