ArtSince1989藝術自1989年

Anextensive,accessibleguidetothemostgroundbreakingandinfluentialartfrom1989tothepresentTheyearssincethecollapseoftheBerlinWallinNovember1989haveseentheriseofanewfreedomtodefineart―Whomakesit?Wherecanitbefound?Whatisitscommercialvalue?―and,consequently,thereevaluationofart’splaceinsociety.KellyGroviersurveysthedynamicdevelopmentsinartpracticeworldwidesince1989,focusingonartistswhosefreshvisualvocabularyandinnovationreflectthesepastturbulentdecades.Thebook’stenchaptersexaminethekeythemesincontemporaryart―portraitureintheageoffacetransplantsandfacialrecognitionsoftware,politicalactivism,science,andreligion,tonameafew―byartistsincludingJeffKoons,LouiseBourgeois,DamienHirst,GeorgeCondo,MarleneDumas,SeanScully,CindySherman,Banksy,AiWeiwei,AntonyGormley,ChristoandJean-Claude,JennyHolzer,ChuckClose,andCorneliaParker.Achapter-lengthtimelineattheendofthebooktracestheevolutionofartfrom1989totodaybycloselyexaminingonekeyartworkfromeachyear.Illustratedwiththeworkofover200keyartists,ArtSince1989isalucidandengaginglookatwhatmayprovetobeoneofthemoretempestuouserasinhumanhistory,ifnotthehistoryofart.254illustrations