Art incorporated the story of contemporary art

Stallabrass notes that the spectacular crash of 1989 profoundly changed the character of contemporary art, shattering the art-world's self-importance and producing a reaction against art that engaged with theory and politics, in favor of art that set out to awe, entertain, and be sold. He descr...

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Autor principal: Stallabrass, Julian
Altres autors: Julian Stallabrass
Idioma:Undetermined
English
Publicat: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2004
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Sumari:Stallabrass notes that the spectacular crash of 1989 profoundly changed the character of contemporary art, shattering the art-world's self-importance and producing a reaction against art that engaged with theory and politics, in favor of art that set out to awe, entertain, and be sold. He describes the growth of biennials and other art events across the globe in the 1990s, the construction of new museums of contemporary art, and the expansion of many museums already in existence
Descripció física:[viii], 229 p.
ill.
18 cm
ISBN:0192801651
9780192801654