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Title: Art on the Edge and Over:Searching for Art's Meaning in Contemporary Society 1970s-1990s by Linda Weintraub, Thomas McEvilley, Arthur Coleman Danto ISBN: 0-9651988-1-2 Publisher: Art Insights, Inc Pub. Date: January, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A BOOK THAT MAKES IT ALL PAINLESS
Comment: I would definitely rate this book a solid nine. No doubt about it. Weintraub does what must be done for the decade of information overload...and spells it out for us...a book that makes it all painless...to allow readers to understand what's going on in the art world and then get on with their lives...Weintraub gives us a critical perspective that is very much of our decade Jerry Cullum, Art Papers
Rating: 3
Summary: An OK overview, but superficial
Comment: I guess this book is meant as a real "intro" text, but if you do know something about this art, it seems pretty lite. Clearly, lots of people like it, but Weintraub seems to bend so far over to make complex work accessible that she really over-simplifines. And the "art" in the book is so scattered and uneven, you don't get any deeper sense of what is going on, what the historical context of any of this might be.
Granted, there aren't many intro texts on recent art. So if this is one of the "better" ones, it's mostly for lack of competition. I wish there was some accessible middle ground between pop/gossip texts and academic tomes. This feels like it's written from someone really distant to the work, who's not always that well-informed.
Rating: 5
Summary: A little of this and a little of that
Comment: as a MFA student thats currently being educated by "the institution" i find myself flip flopping between wanting to drop out or drop in...this book didn't save me but it sure put things in perspective, never before in a book have I seen cover such topics where you can find Barbara Kruger and James Luna and Joseph Beuys and Tomie Arai between the same cover's in a book. This book also addresses an important issue for me. race. The art world is racist and if you don't know that just look around, art is life and a reflection of society and if you dont know that its because your a white (sorry but its true). This book may not address it but it surely helps to have some artists of color represented (although they aren't near the best art makers).
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Title: After Modern Art, 1945-2000 (Oxford History of Art) by David Hopkins ISBN: 019284234X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art by Linda Weintraub ISBN: 1891024590 Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings (California Studies in the History of Art ; 35) by Kristine Stiles, Peter Howard Selz ISBN: 0520202538 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: ArtSpeak : A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present (Speak Series) by Robert Atkins ISBN: 0789203650 Publisher: Abbeville Press, Inc. Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being by Jonathan Fineberg ISBN: 0131833219 Publisher: Prentice Hall Press Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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