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Author Esplund, Lance, author.

Title The art of looking : how to read modern and contemporary art / Lance Esplund.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, 2018.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  709.04 ESPLUND    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  709.04 ESPLUND    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  709.04 ESP    DUE 04-03-24
Edition First edition.
Description 277 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-262) and index.
Contents Section I: Fundamentals. Encountering art -- The living organism -- Hearts and minds -- Artists as storytellers -- Art is a lie -- Section II: Close encounters. Awakening: Balthus--The cat with a mirror I -- Sensing: Joan Mitchell--Two sunflowers -- Growing: Jean Arp--Growth -- Igniting: James Turrell--Perfectly clear -- Evolving: Paul Klee--Signs in yellow -- Interacting: Marina Abramović--The generator -- Journeying: Richard Serra--torqued spirals and ellipses at Dia:Beacon -- Goading: Robert Gober--Untitled leg -- Alchemizing: Richard Tuttle--White Balloon with blue light -- Submerging: Jeremy Blake--The Winchester trilogy -- Looking further.
Summary A hand-signed porcelain urinal. An abstract drip painting. A silent 700 hour performance. Art has changed since the days of Giotto, Michelangelo, and even Picasso--and many of us are perplexed. Do modern and contemporary artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Jackson Pollock, and Marina Abramovic represent civilization's highest achievements? Or is something else afoot? In The Art of Looking, art critic Lance Esplund demonstrates that works of modern and contemporary art are not as indecipherable as they seem to be. He reveals the threads that weave the art of the past with that of the present, and shows us how to separate the genuine article from mere rags--not to mention the emperor's new clothes.
Subject Art, Modern.
Art appreciation.
ART -- General.
Art appreciation. (OCoLC)fst00815447
Art, Modern. (OCoLC)fst00816615
Other Form: Online version: Esplund, Lance. Art of looking. First edition. New York : Basic Books, 2018 9780465094677 (DLC) 2018028114
ISBN 9780465094660 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
046509466X (hardcover ; alk. paper)
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