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090    N6497|b.G633 2020 
100 1  Godfrey, Tony,|eauthor. 
245 14 The story of contemporary art /|cTony Godfrey. 
264  1 Cambridge, Massachusetts :|bMIT Press,|c2020. 
264  4 |c©2020 
300    280 pages :|billustrations (chiefly color) ;|c27 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
336    still image|bsti|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "Published by arrangement with Thames & Hudson Ltd, London
       by the MIT Press"--Title page verso. 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  On contemporary art and artists -- The wreckage of 
       Modernism and after: 1945-1979 -- The return of painting: 
       the early 1980s -- Taking the photograph seriously: the 
       1980s continued -- Sculpture, installations or 
       commodities? Around 1987 -- National art or global art? 
       1989 -- For a community, oneself or one's soul? The late 
       1990s -- The spectacular or the everyday? 200-2004 -- 
       Storytelling or abstraction? 2005-2009 -- Auction art or 
       Biennale art? 2010-2014 -- Art in the age of surveillance 
       capitalism: 2015 onwards. 
520    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. 
648  7 1900-2099|2fast 
650  0 Art, Modern|y20th century. 
650  0 Art, Modern|y21st century. 
650  7 Art, Modern.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00816615 
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