Art Today: A Guide To International Art; Author: Lucie-Smith, Edward; Hardback; Book

Author: Lucie-Smith, Edward
Revised ed; Hardback; Book; 500 Colour Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Ind
511 pages
Published: October 1995
Phaidon Press Ltd
ISBN: 0714832014
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This book is a survey of one of the richest, most controversial and perhaps most thoroughly confusing epochs in the whole history of the visual arts -- the period from 1960 to the mid-1990s. Edward LucieSmith combines a critical eye with a historian's insight into wider trends. His earlier Art Today, a survey of post-war art, became a bestseller. This completely new book reflects the huge changes that have swept across the art world since 1960. Guiding the reader through the complexities of contemporary art, the new book encompasses everything from Arte Povera to Afro-Caribbean art,figurative painting to Feminism, American realism to racial minorities, illustrating and analysing the work of over 500 outstanding contemporary artists. Informative, authoritative and challenging, ArLucid, authoriative and richly illustrated survey of movements in world art since 1960. Completely new version of the author's highly successful earlier book with the same title. Over 500 works featured.An illustrated survey of movements in world art since 1960. The book reflects the changes that have challenged old assumptions and certainties. It argues that the art world is no longer hierarchical but plural, and that its structures - if they exist at all - are provisional.