The Contemporaries: Travels in the 21st-Century Art World

by Roger White and Roger White

Book Overview

It's been nearly a century since Marcel Duchamp exhibited a urinal and called it art. Since then, painting has been declared dead several times over, and contemporary art has now expanded to include just about any object, action, or event: dance routines, slideshows, functional hair salons, seemingly random accretions of waste. In the meantime, being an artist has gone from a join-the-circus fantasy to a plausible vocation for scores of young people...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620400944
• ISBN13: 9781620400944
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"