Art & today [[Book] /]
Art and today.
by Eleanor Heartney.
- London ; New York : Phaidon Press, 2008.
- 440 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 426-430) and index.
Art & popular culture: the Warhol effect -- Art & the quotidian object: the transformation of the readymade -- Art & abstraction: retreat from purity -- Art & representation: the fiction of realism -- Art & narrative: postmodern story telling -- Art & time: from real time to reel time -- Art & nature and technology: remaking land and body -- Art & deformation: celebrating human imperfection -- Art & the body: from object to subject -- Art & identity: the rise of the hybrid self -- Art & spirituality: rediscovering transcendence -- Art & globalism: negotiating a borderless world -- Art & architecture: the utopian fallacy -- Art & its institutions: art reflects on itself -- Art & politics: the rhetoric of dissent -- Art & audience: reinventing the viewer.