Heartney, Eleanor. 1954-

Art & today / Art and today by Eleanor, Heartney. - 1st ed. - London ; New York : Phaidon Press, 2008. - 440 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 426-430) and index.

Introduction -- 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 -- Notes -- Chronology -- List of artists -- Bibliography -- Index.

9780714845142 (hbk.)

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Art, Modern--20th century.
Art criticism.

709.04 / HEA