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Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art After 1980

Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art After 1980

By Jean Robertson and Craig McDaniel

Offering a unique thematic approach to recent art history, Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980 , Fourth Edition, focuses on eight central ideas recurring in art over the past few decades: identity, the body, time, memory, place, language, science, and spirituality. This thought-provoking volume features over 200 full-color images of artworks that exemplify a wide variety of materials, techniques, theoretical viewpoints, and stylistic approaches, by artists from diverse ethnic, cultural, and geographic backgrounds.

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publish Date: 11/01/2016
Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780190276621
ISBN-10: 0190276622
Language: English

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Offering a unique thematic approach to recent art history, Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980, Fourth Edition, focuses on eight central ideas recurring in art over the past few decades: identity, the body, time, memory, place, language, science, and spirituality. This thought-provoking volume features over 200 full-color images of artworks that exemplify a wide variety of materials, techniques, theoretical viewpoints, and stylistic approaches, by artists from diverse ethnic, cultural, and geographic backgrounds. Its concise, engaging, and accessible narrative challenges readers to think actively and critically about the ideas expressed in contemporary art.

About the Authors


Jean Robertson is Chancellor's Professor of Art History at Indiana University's Herron School of Art and Design. CRAIG McDANIEL is Associate Dean and Professor of Fine Arts at Indiana University's Herron School of Art and Design. They are co-authors of Spellbound: Rethinking the Alphabet (2016).<

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JEAN ROBERTSON is Chancellor's Professor of Art History at Indiana University's Herron School of Art and Design. CRAIG McDANIEL is Associate Dean and Professor of Fine Arts at Indiana University's Herron School of Art and Design. They are co-authors of Spellbound: Rethinking the Alphabet (2016).<

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