Ways of looking : how to experience contemporany art / Ossian Ward
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: London : Laurence King, 2014Description: 176 páginas : ilustraciones a color ; 23 cmContent type:- texto
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- 9781780671932
- N6497 W373 2014
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An introduction to looking again -- Art as entertainment -- Art as confrontation -- Art as event -- Art as message -- Art as joke -- Art as spectacle -- Art as meditation.
Art has changed. Those reassuringly familiar styles and movements that characterised art production prior to the twenty-first century have all vanished. Traditional artistic media no longer do what we expect of them. This book provides a straightforward, six-step programme for understanding contemporary art based on the concept of the tabula rasa a clean slate and a fresh mind. Since artists increasingly work across traditional media and genres, the author has also developed an alternative classification system Art as Entertainment, Art as Confrontation, Art as Joke designed to help make sense of otherwise obscure-seeming works. Ways of Looking transforms a potentially intimidating encounter with cutting edge contemporary art into a dramatic, sensually rewarding thought provoking experience.
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