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Author Ward, Ossian, author.

Title Ways of looking : how to experience contemporary art / Ossian Ward.

Publication Info. London : Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 2014.
©2014

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  709.04 WARD    Check Shelf
Description 176 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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 cuttingedge contemporary art into a dramatic, sensually rewarding and thoughtprovoking experience.
Subject Art, Modern -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Themes, motives.
Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Appreciation.
Modernism (Art)
Interpretation. (DE-588)4072905-9
Kunst. (DE-588)4114333-4
Kunstwerk. (DE-588)4123592-7
Rezeption. (DE-588)4049716-1
Art, Modern. (OCoLC)fst00816615
Art, Modern -- Themes, motives. (OCoLC)fst00816663
Chronological Term 2000 - 2099
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Added Title How to experience contemporary art
ISBN 9781780671932 (paperback)
1780671938 (paperback)
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