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The Story og Contemporary Art

Hardcover • 2020 • English

The Story og Contemporary Art

By Tony Godfrey

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About the book

<i>What does it mean?<br> Is it really art?<br> Why does it cost so much?</i><br> While these questions are perpetually asked about contemporary art, they are not the questions that E. H. Gombrich set out to answer in his seminal book <i>The Story of Art</i>. Contemporary art is very different from what came before. From the 1960s, where Gombrich’s account concludes, artists began to abandon traditional forms of art and started to make work that questioned art’s very definition. This is where Go...Show more

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ISBN

9780500239872

Published year

2020

Language

English

Original title

The Story og Contemporary Art

Format

Hardcover

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