The Art of Looking: How to Read Modern and Contemporary Art

by Lance Esplund

Book Overview

A veteran art critic helps us make sense of modern and contemporary art

The landscape of contemporary art has changed dramatically during the last hundred years: from Malevich's 1915 painting of a single black square and Duchamp's 1917 signed porcelain urinal to Jackson Pollock's midcentury "drip" paintings; Chris Burden's "Shoot" (1971), in which the artist was voluntarily shot in the arm with a rifle; Urs Fischer's "You" (2007), a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 046509466X
• ISBN13: 9780465094660
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.5"