The
Photograph
as
Contemporary Art - Charlotte
Cotton
(Available from the LRC)
This book, now updated and
expanded,
is
a
profusely
illustrated survey of the use of photography in
contemporary art since the mid-1980s. It
features the work of more than 170 of
internationally renowned and up-and-coming
artist-photographers, including Andreas Gursky,
Nan Goldin, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Richard
Billingham, Jargen Teller, Thomas Demand,
Christopher Williams, Sherrie Levine, Jeff Wall,
Wolfgang Tillmans, Zoe Leonard, and many
more. Themed chapters consider subjects such
as narrative and storytelling in art photography,
photographing
the
everyday
and
the
insignificant, the use of photography in
conceptual art, and the cool, detached, objective
aesthetic prevalent in current art photography. A
new eighth chapter examines why many artists,
in the age of digital photography, make work
that focuses on the physical and material
properties of photography, respond to the
changing means of distributing photographic
images, and push the boundaries of technology
to reach larger and more diverse audiences.
Shock of the New - Robert Hughes
(Available from the LRC)
An illustrated 100-year history of
modern art, from cubism to pop
and Avant-guard. .
Art Theory - Cynthia Freeland
(Available from the LRC)
In today's art world many strange,
even shocking, things qualify as
art. In this Very Short Introduction
Cynthia Freeland explains why
innovation and controversy are
valued in the arts, weaving
together philosophy and art theory with many
fascinating examples. She discusses blood,
beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and
politics, clarifying contemporary and historical
accounts of the nature, function, and
interpretation of the arts. Freeland also propels
us into the future by surveying cutting-edge web
sites, alongside the latest research on the brain's
role in perceiving art. This clear, provocative
book engages with the big debates surrounding
our responses to art and is an invaluable
introduction to anyone interested in thinking
about art.
Ways of Seeing - J Berger
John Berger's Ways of Seeing is
one of the most stimulating and
influential books on art in any
language. First published in
1972, it was based on the BBC
television series about which the
Sunday Times critic commented:
'this is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by
concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he
will almost certainly change the way you look at
pictures.' By now he has.
Reading Guide for
ART in
Cadbury College LRC
Learning to Look at Modern Art - M Acton
This companion volume to the
author's Learning to Look at
Paintings suggests that the best
way to understand modern art is
to look closely at it, and to
consider the different elements
that make up each art work:
composition, space and form, light and colour,
and subject matter. Engaging and beautifullywritten, this guide to art of the modern and
postmodern period covers key art movements
including:

Expressionism

Constructivism

the Bauhaus

Surrealism

Pop Art

Conceptual Art

Young British Art
The book is richly illustrated with colour and
black and white images by the artists, designers
and architects discussed, ranging from Picasso
and Matisse to Le Corbusier, Andy Warhol and
Rachel Whiteread.
Blimey Matthew Collings
(Available from the LRC)
A racy account of the London
contemporary art scene by
celebrated art critic Matthew
Collings, giving a snapshot of the
new Bohemia of the 90s interwoven with
episodes from the author's own life in London.
From Francis Bacon to Damien Hirst, speciallycommissioned photographs by documentary
film-maker Ian MacMillan brings London's
artists, dealers and critics face to face with the
reader.
Art since 1960 - Michael Archer
(Available from the LRC)
This intelligently argued critical
overview is invaluable for the way
in which it reveals and makes
coherent sense of the often bewildering diversity
of styles, forms, media, techniques and agendas
that proliferate in contemporary art. Now
revised and expanded, Michael Archer's
acclaimed book is brought right up to date with
discussions
about
the
comprehensive
globalization of art since the 1990s, which has
been reflected in the growth of the exhibition
calendar and the number of new museums
opening around the world. With over thirty new
illustrations and an updated timeline and
bibliography, Art Since 1960 provides an
indispensable survey and source of information
on the evolution of art over the past four
decades.
The Contemporary Art Book –
Charlotte Bonham-Carter
At one time dismissed by many as
inaccessible, elitist or even facile,
contemporary art has since entered
the realm of popular culture and is
enjoyed by millions of gallery visitors every year.
This accessible and beautifully produced up-todate guide pinpoints key artists and events, and
so helps demystify a generation of rapid change
in the art world. The A-Z listing (by artist's name)
will feature 200 of the most widely exhibited and
remarkable artists who have made substantial
contributions over the past 40 years; with
biographies, insights into their key works and
cross-referencing to linked artists, themes and
movements.
Abstract Art – Anna Moszynska
By placing abstract art within its
political and cultural history,
Anna Moszynska elucidates a
form that, since its origin, has
bewildered its admirers and
detractors alike. She offers the
reader a comprehensive trajectory of
abstraction-- from the radically new pictorial
language of Bella and Delaunnay, to the visceral
spirituality of Kandinsky and Mondrian, to the
geometrically-obsessed artists of the 1930s and
1940s. The author takes us from the origin of the
movement during the First World War to the
post-World War II Zeitgeist that emphasized
personal expression, and finally, the revival of
Abstraction practiced by Neo-Geo, among
others, in the 1980s.
Modern Art: A Very Short
Introduction – D Cottington
(Available from the LRC as an ebook)
As public interest in modern art
continues to grow, as witnessed by
the spectacular success of Tate Modern and the
Bilbao Guggenheim, there is a real need for a
book that will engage general readers, offering
them not only information and ideas about
modern art, but also explaining its contemporary
relevance and history. This book achieves all this
and focuses on interrogating the idea of
'modern' art by asking such questions as: What
has made a work of art qualify as modern (or fail
to)? How has this selection been made? What is
the relationship between modern and
contemporary art? Is 'postmodernist' art no
longer modern, or just no longer modernist - in
either case, why, and what does this claim mean,
both for art and the idea of 'the modern'?
Cottington examines many key aspects of this
subject, including the issue of controversy in
modern art, from Manet's Dejeuner sur L'Herbe
(1863) to Picasso's Les Demoiselles, and Tracey
Emin's Bed, (1999); and the role of the dealer
from the main Cubist art dealer Kahnweiler to
Charles Saatchi.
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