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Title: Art at the Turn of the Millennium by Uta Grosenick, Burkhard Riemschneider, Lars Bang Larsen, Christoph Blase, Yilmaz Dziewior ISBN: 3-8228-7393-4 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An essential book
Comment: "Art at the Turn of the Millennium" is an essential book for browsing the work of the best artists of recent decades. The book provides an indispensable taster of many contemporary artists with large color pictures and succinct text.
Certainly many great contemporary artists are missing (such as the still active significant "architectural artists" as Siah Armajani and Alice Aycock). However, no book can do justice to all major artists in the current wide contemporary field, and in light of the outstanding collection, any omissions are forgiven. (Indeed many of the work are 3d or video, as reflects the art climate of the last fifteen years. Nevertheless, most revered and noteworthy art in recent years has been 3d artwork and/or video.)
An updated version of this book, "Art Now", by the same editors also is also obligatory reading for contemporary art lovers.
Rating: 4
Summary: An Imaginary Exhibition Catalogue
Comment: As the title of my review suggests, the book is composed in a form of an imaginary exhibition catalogue, where the artists are featured in an alphabetical order.
The book features the most recent art of the 80's and 90's up to the year 2000, and artsits active during the last 20 years, alongside artists who became known on the international arena only a year before the book was released. The "content" of the book, or the works featured in it, are a matter of taste, of course. I found them to be unindependant mostly ("been there..." was my reaction to many of them). Nevertheless, I find the book to be a very interesting and inclusive document of the art of our days.
It is important to emphasize the book does not include art critisizm, or what we call art history - in the sense that it doesn't examine every art work nor does it attempt to explain it iconographically. Instead the book gives short professional biographies of the artists featured, and references to further bibliography, that's why I still find it safe to say the book is informative.
In conclusion, if there was a different rating to the content of the book as opposed to it's composition, I would rate the first 4 stars as I did, but for the second criterion I would definitely give the whole 5!
Rating: 5
Summary: THIS IS ART
Comment: I'm shocked to see that the reviews on this page are not more positive. I wanted this book from the minute I saw it in the bookshop-- just the design and the title were enough to sell me. Now that I own it I couldn't be happier This is a sweeping look at the most important artists of the past 20 years or so. A careful, painstaking selection has resulted in a very thorough reference book, with artists listed alphabetically. Each entry has a short biography, list of shows, and (this is great) a little photo of the artist, as well as 2 to 4 pages of illustrations. Every time I've wanted to check out an artist, I found him/her right there in the book. If the high percentage of three (or even four) dimensional work in this book is surprising, wake up-- this is the state of contemporary art. Artists are breaking borders, breaking out of the frame, the two dimensional prison. Color, shape, light, concept, existence, likeness, falsity, video, society, future, installation, performance, touch, provocation, mortality.... art is much more than just painting. Open your mind and this book will blow you away.
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Title: Art Now by Uta Grosenick ISBN: 382281444X Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Vitamin P by Barry Schwabsky ISBN: 071484246X Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 23 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $69.95 |
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Title: Fresh Cream by Editors of Phaidon Press ISBN: 0714839248 Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 11 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: Cream 3 by Editors of Phaidon Press ISBN: 0714843113 Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: Art Now (TASCHEN Icons Series) by Lars Bang Larsen, Christiph Blase, Yilmaz Dziewior, Jean-Michel Ribettes, Raimar Stange, Susanne Titz, Jan Verwoert, Astrid Wege, Taschen ISBN: 3822811602 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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