Author

Publication

2014 - Laurence King Publishing Ltd, England

Language

English

Word Count

44,000 words, Guess

Page Count

176 pages

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Classifications

  • DDC709.05
  • LCCN6497 .W37 2014

Alternate Titles

  • How to experience contemporary art

Description

Art has changed. Those reassuringly familiar styles and movements that characterised art production prior to the twenty-first century have all vanished. Traditional artistic media no longer do what we expect of them. This book provides a straightforward, six-step programme for understanding contemporary art based on the concept of the tabula rasa a clean slate and a fresh mind. Since artists increasingly work across traditional media and genres, the author has also developed an alternative classification system Art as Entertainment, Art as Confrontation, Art as Joke designed to help make sense of otherwise obscure-seeming works. Ways of Looking transforms a potentially intimidating encounter with cuttingedge contemporary art into a dramatic, sensually rewarding and thoughtprovoking experience.

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