The book by Edward Lucie-Smith maps the plurality of the contemporary art world from the 1960s and examines many new art forms, such as land, installation, light, that surfaced during the said period. He also surveys art outside of the Euro-American art-historical hierarchy. 

'This book is a survey of the richest, most controversial and perhaps most thoroughly confusing epoch in the whole history of the visual arts - the period from 1960 to the present. 

'Art Today provides a map of an unstable world. The author charts the progress of contemporary developments and points out their sources and interrelationships, many of them surprising. The work of over 500 outstanding contemporary artists is analysed and illustrated in colour.' - extracted from book flap.

Includes featured artists' biographies, a chronology, a bibliography and an index.

Please note that only Asian artists are listed.
Alternative title

ARTODAY

Access level

Onsite

Location code
REF.LSE
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

1995

No of pages

512

ISBN / ISSN

9780714838885

No of copies

1

Content type

monograph

Chapter headings

Introduction

Pop and After

The Survival of Abstraction

Minimal and Conceptual

Neo-Dada, Art Povera and Installation

Neo-Expressionism

Realism in America

Post-Modernism and Neo-Clasicism

British Figurative Painting

New British Sculpture

New Art in New York

Out of New York

Latin America

Perestroika Art

The Far East

African and Afro-Caribbean Art

Racial Minorities

Feminist and Gay

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