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by Edward Lucie-Smith
This book is a world survey of the visual arts from the 1960s to the present, a period of extraordinary richness, and also of controversy and confusion. With a critical eye and a historian’s insight into wider trends, Edward Lucie-Smith provides an authoritative guide to this unstable world. Clear, accurate and informative, he charts the progress of contemporary developments and traces their sources and interrelationships.
Since its first publication in 1995, Art Today has become recognised as an indispensable introduction to contemporary art. It is now reissued as a paperback, at a price that will make it affordable to students and all who seek orientation in this exciting but complex field.
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Reviewer: Keith Adams, England Date Sent: 23/10/2005
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I find the book well balanced in respect to the exposure of differing media, unlike other books on contemporary art I looked at, Artoday includes reasonable coverage of contemporary painting as well as sculpture, installation and conceptual art.
Artoday looks at developments in art from Pop Art in the 1960's to the present day. The author, Edward Lucie-Smith, is a well-known, art commentator, writing both freelance columns and books on contemporary and modern art.
In Artoday, Edward Lucie-Smith moves through the main art movements in Britain and America and also surveys non-mainstream art from other countries and minority groups. He covers the work of over 500 artists, with large, colour illustrations throughout the 500 pages. The associated text is well written and concise, but assumes a basic knowledge of modern art since it does not cover the artists and related movements in any depth. Also mentioned are the political and current affairs contemporary to the art creation with a discussion of their influences and interrelationships.
Included at the back of the book are biographies of the artists mentioned in the book. These biographies, although brief, include information about exhibitions and other publications and are a very useful starting point for further study.
Basically Artoday is a concise, broad-ranging overview of modern art of the last three decades. It is an ideal introduction to contemporary art for readers with a basic knowledge of the art movements of the earlier part of the century.
A concise, broad-ranging overview of contemporary art.
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