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02736aam a2200349 i 4500 001 0F5C0E8471B711EB8A4F4B2E3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210218010021 008 200224s2020 maua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780262044103 020 $a 0262044102 035 $a (OCoLC)1141501591 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d RSD $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d CNWPU $d GZN $d SILO 050 4 $a N6497 $b .G633 2020 082 04 $a 709.05 $2 23 100 1 $a Godfrey, Tony, $e author. 245 14 $a The story of contemporary art / $c Tony Godfrey. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b MIT Press, $c 2020. 300 $a 280 pages : $b illustrations (chiefly color) ; $c 27 cm 500 $a "Published by arrangement with Thames & Hudson Ltd, London by the MIT Press"--Title page verso. 520 8 $a What does it mean? Is it really art? Why does it cost so much?" While these questions are perpetually asked about contemporary art, they are not the questions that E. H. Gombrich set out to answer in his seminal book 'The Story of Art'. Contemporary art is very different from what came before. From the 1960s, where Gombrich's account concludes, artists began to abandon traditional forms of art and started to make work that questioned art's very definition. This is where Godfrey picks up the story. Developments in contemporary art have followed no straightforward line of progress or sequence of movements. Recognizing this, Tony Godfrey creates a narrative from a series of often dramatic creative conflicts and arguments around what art is or should be. From object versus sculpture and painting versus conceptual to local versus global, gallery versus wider world, The Story of Contemporary Art traces a history in terms of drastic changes in social and political life over the last sixty years. How do we experience being human in a world that seems to change so quickly? In exploring art's relationship to this question, Godfrey asserts that multiple voices must be heard: critics, theorists, curators and collectors, but also audiences and artists themselves. Key to the book is the story of how a perception that art was made almost exclusively by white men from North America and Western Europe has been radically overturned. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 650 0 $a Art, Modern $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Art, Modern $y 21st century. 650 7 $a Art, Modern. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00816615 648 7 $a 1900-2099 $2 fast 941 $a 4 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20240501010121.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20220804024411.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317022433.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722063927.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0F5C0E8471B711EB8A4F4B2E3BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search