Contemporary art / Edward Saywell, Al Miner, Liz Munsell, and Emily Zilber.
Contemporary art is a vast and complex field representing artists, ideas and trends from every imaginable cultural and geographical background. This book introduces the art of our times by taking the reader through a tour of some 70 examples from the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. T...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston, Massachusetts :
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | MFA highlights.
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| Summary: | Contemporary art is a vast and complex field representing artists, ideas and trends from every imaginable cultural and geographical background. This book introduces the art of our times by taking the reader through a tour of some 70 examples from the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Thematic chapters present artistic categories, concepts and propositions that offer a path toward understanding the different subjects, forms, styles, purposes and techniques of contemporary art. Some, such as portraiture, are long-standing notions in the history of art; others, such as site appropriation, raise provocative questions and may be less immediately obvious. But it is the works themselves--brilliantly conceived by some of the most creative minds of our times--that make the case for embracing contemporary art in all its diversity. |
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| Physical Description: | 180 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 176) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780878468164 0878468161 |