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Cover Page: 1 Title Page Page: 3 About the Author Page: 4 Contents Page: 5 Preface Page: 6 Introduction – On Contemporary Art and Artists Page: 7 Chapter 1 – The Wreckage of Modernism and After: 1945–1979 Page: 12 Chapter 2 – The Return to Painting: The Early 1980s Page: 20 Chapter 3 – Taking the Photograph Seriously: The 1980s Continued Page: 26 Chapter 4 – Sculpture, Installations or Commodities? Around 1987 Page: 30 Chapter 5 – National Art or Global Art? 1989 Page: 35 Chapter 6 – For a Community, Oneself or One’s Soul? The Late 1990s Page: 40 Chapter 7 – The Spectacular or the Everyday? 2000–2004 Page: 46 Chapter 8 – Storytelling or Abstraction? 2005–2009 Page: 52 Chapter 9 – Auction Art or Biennale Art? 2010–2014 Page: 59 Chapter 10 – Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism: 2015 Onwards Page: 67 Afterword Page: 76 Notes Page: 77 Acknowledgments Page: 85 Picture Credits Page: 86 Index Page: 89 Copyright Page: 94

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An instant classic--a lively new 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. 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.

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by Tony Godfrey

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Cover Page: 1 Title Page Page: 3 About the Author Page: 4 Contents Page: 5 Preface Page: 6 Introduction – On Contemporary Art and Artists Page: 7 Chapter 1 – The Wreckage of Modernism and After: 1945–1979 Page: 12 Chapter 2 – The Return to Painting: The Early 1980s Page: 20 Chapter 3 – Taking the Photograph Seriously: The 1980s Continued Page: 26 Chapter 4 – Sculpture, Installations or Commodities? Around 1987 Page: 30 Chapter 5 – National Art or Global Art? 1989 Page: 35 Chapter 6 – For a Community, Oneself or One’s Soul? The Late 1990s Page: 40 Chapter 7 – The Spectacular or the Everyday? 2000–2004 Page: 46 Chapter 8 – Storytelling or Abstraction? 2005–2009 Page: 52 Chapter 9 – Auction Art or Biennale Art? 2010–2014 Page: 59 Chapter 10 – Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism: 2015 Onwards Page: 67 Afterword Page: 76 Notes Page: 77 Acknowledgments Page: 85 Picture Credits Page: 86 Index Page: 89 Copyright Page: 94

Description:

An instant classic--a lively new 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. 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.

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