Contemporary British Art: An Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780415389730 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 302 str.

Grant Pooke

Opis

Never, according to an article by the art critic Louisa Buck in the Evening Standard magazine last year, has the following quotation from US Museum Director Thomas Hoving, seemed more apt: "Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!"

This book will provide an introduction to British art, in all its money-sexy glory, from the yBas to the present. Grant Pooke’s study explores key themes in British art practice: autobiographical art, the abject, mutability and death, through a discussion of the work of key artists and art movements, including Michael Landy, Lucian Freud, Sam Taylor-Wood, Damien Hirst, Rachel Whiteread and Anthony Gormley. A range of art forms, from painting and sculpture to video and installation art will be addressed.

Spis treści

Selected Contents: Acknowledgements  Illustrations  Figures  Plates  Introduction  1. Perspectives on the Contemporary Art Market and its Institutions  2. Post-Conceptual British Painting  3. Installation Art and Sculpture as Institutional Paradigms  4. New Media in Transition: Photography, Video & the Performative  Post-Conceptual British Art: New Directions Home  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Grant Pooke is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts, University of Kent. He is the author of Francis Klingender 1907-1955: A Marxist Art Historian Out of Time (2008) and co-author of Art History: The Basics (2008).