This accessible overview is invaluable for the way in which it makes coherent sense of the often-bewildering diversity of styles, forms, media, techniques, and agendas that proliferate in contemporary art. Extensively revised and expanded since it was first published, Michael Archer’s acclaimed book is brought fully up to date in this new edition through the addition of a new chapter on developments in contemporary art since 2000. Art Since 1960 remains an indispensable source of information on the evolution of art over the past five-and-a-half decades.
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Presents an overview that helps you make coherent sense of the often-bewildering diversity of styles, forms, media, techniques, and agendas that proliferate in contemporary art. This edition includes a new chapter on developments in contemporary art since 2000. It offers information on the evolution of art over the decades.
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'Archer’s admirable overview treats the history of art of this period in a manner which does justice to its diversity and its complexity of inter-relations, between different aspects of artistic practice and the actualities of the world in which they operate... a?brave and intelligent attempt to live up to its implications' - Art Monthly
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Extensively revised and expanded since it was first published, Michael Archer’s acclaimed book is brought fully up to date in this third edition

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780500204245
Publisert
2015-01-12
Utgave
3. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Vekt
600 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
150 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288

Forfatter

Biographical note

Michael Archer is an art critic and Professor of Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. His writing on art has appeared in Artforum, Parkett, Frieze and Art Monthly, and in numerous catalogues.