Contemporary Art - MFA Highlights

Klappentext A new addition to the MFA Highlights series. Zusammenfassung 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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• Authors: Al Miner, Miner Al, Liz Munsell, Munsell Liz, Not Available (NA), Edward Saywell, Saywell Edward, Emily Zilber, Zilber Emily
• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Distributed Titles
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.12.2015
• EAN: 9780878468164
• ISBN: 978-0-87846-816-4
• Series: MFA Highlights; MFA Highlights
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; ART / History / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -