What Was Contemporary Art?

Name: What Was Contemporary Art?
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ISBN: 9780262135085

ISBN-10: 0262135086

ISBN-13: 9780262135085

Edition: 2013

Authors: Richard Meyer

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Contemporary art in the early twenty-first century is often discussed as though itwere a radically new phenomenon unmoored from history. Yet all works of art were once contemporaryto the artist and culture that produced them. In What Was Contemporary Art?Richard Meyer reclaims the contemporary from historical amnesia, exploring episodes in the study,exhibition, and reception of early twentieth-century art and visual culture.Meyer analyzes an undergraduate course taught by Alfred Barr at Wellesley Collegein 1927 as a key moment in the introduction of works by living artists into the discipline of arthistory, then turns to a series of exhibitions from the 1930s that put contemporary art in…

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List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/15/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 376
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.398
Language: English