Art & today /

Heartney, Eleanor, 1954-

Art & today / Art and today by Eleanor Heartney. - 440 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 30 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 426-430) and index.

Art & popular culture: the Warhol effect -- Art & the quotidian object: the transformation of the readymade -- Art & abstraction: retreat from purity -- Art & representation: the fiction of realism -- Art & narrative: postmodern story telling -- Art & time: from real time to reel time -- Art & nature and technology: remaking land and body -- Art & deformation: celebrating human imperfection -- Art & the body: from object to subject -- Art & identity: the rise of the hybrid self -- Art & spirituality: rediscovering transcendence -- Art & globalism: negotiating a borderless world -- Art & architecture: the utopian fallacy -- Art & its institutions: art reflects on itself -- Art & politics: the rhetoric of dissent -- Art & audience: reinventing the viewer.

0714845140 9780714845142


Art, Modern--20th century.
Art criticism.

N6490 / .H42 2008

709.04

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