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.