Contemporary art. Modernism
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Contemporary art. Modernism
39.99 €
Valeria Kosyakova is a PhD in cultural studies, associate professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities "Higher School of European Cultures", founder of the "Punktum" center, and a researcher of visual culture.
Dmitry Pozdnyakov is a specialist in the history and theory of cinema and visual art, a cultural scientist. Before you is an entertaining art detective story about revolutions and transformations in art. The authors have not only listed the names of famous artists, movements, schools and their corresponding characteristics, but also explained how and why art has changed over the past century and a half.
Why is contemporary art so different from the artistic quests of bygone times? How have ideas about beauty transformed, how has the role of the artist in society changed? What will help us understand contemporary art? How does it differ from the current art that is being born before our eyes, here and now?
The current analytical theories and various interpretative approaches discussed in the book will help the reader gain a critical distance for a panoramic view of the visual culture of the 20th century.
Dmitry Pozdnyakov is a specialist in the history and theory of cinema and visual art, a cultural scientist. Before you is an entertaining art detective story about revolutions and transformations in art. The authors have not only listed the names of famous artists, movements, schools and their corresponding characteristics, but also explained how and why art has changed over the past century and a half.
Why is contemporary art so different from the artistic quests of bygone times? How have ideas about beauty transformed, how has the role of the artist in society changed? What will help us understand contemporary art? How does it differ from the current art that is being born before our eyes, here and now?
The current analytical theories and various interpretative approaches discussed in the book will help the reader gain a critical distance for a panoramic view of the visual culture of the 20th century.
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