GODFREY TONY

(P/B) The Story of Contemporary Art
A lively introduction to and history of international contemporary art from 1960 to the present. 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 de...
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ΕΝΝΟΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΤΕΧΝΗ
Τι είναι τέχνη; Ένα μοναδικό εμπορεύσιμο είδος πολυτελείας; Ίσως μια έννοια που δε μετουσιώνεται ποτέ σε ύλη; Ή μια ιδέα για ένα έργο που επαναλαμβάνεται συνέχεια; Η εννοιολογική τέχνη εγείρει τέτοια ερωτήματα. Όπως φαίνεται και στις φωτογραφίες αυτού του βιβλίου, αναπτύσσεται με διάφορα μέσα: με φωτογραφίες, βίντεο, αφίσες, χάρτες, σχέδια, ενώ χρησιμοποιεί ιδιαίτερα και την ίδια τη γλώσσα. Ο Τόνυ Γκόντφρεϋ δίνει ένα ζωντανό απολογισμό γι' αυτό το εκπληκτικό φαινόμενο. Ανατρέχει στις πηγές της εννοιολογικής τέχνης μέσα από το έργο του Μαρσ...
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(P/B) CONCEPTUAL ART
-A clear and engaging account of art where the idea behind the work is as important as, if not more than, its physical existence -The first truly international account of Conceptual art, considering works from as far afield as Japan and Argentina, as well as the more well-known locations of Europe and America -Covers the many forms of Conceptual art: photographs, videos, posters, billboards, charts, plans and even language itself -Traces its origins to the anti-art gestures of Dada, as well as considering how artists have continued to a...
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(P/B) PAINTING TODAY
Not only is this book an overview of contemporary painting, it is also an enquiry into how we experience its images, what they mean and why the practice remains vital. The venerable art of painting still thrives as a leading force in the art market. Painting Today explores the development of the medium, especially through the last forty years, and the diversity of paintings now being made internationally. Critics have suggested that painting lost its way in the second half of the twentieth century. Indeed, the innovations of photography, f...
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(H/B) PAINTING TODAY
Not only is this book an overview of contemporary painting, it is also an enquiry into how we experience its images, what they mean and why the practice remains vital. The venerable art of painting still thrives as a leading force in the art market. Painting Today explores the development of the medium, especially through the last forty years, and the diversity of paintings now being made internationally. Critics have suggested that painting lost its way in the second half of the twentieth century. Indeed, the innovations of photography, ...
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