Research Catalog
Contemporary art
- Title
- Contemporary art / Edward Saywell, Al Miner, Liz Munsell, and Emily Zilber.
- Publication
- Boston, Massachusetts : MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, [2015]
- ©2015
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | N6487.B6 M843 2015 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 180 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 23 cm.
- Summary
- Contemporary art is a vast and complex field representing artists, ideas and trends from every imaginable cultural and geographical background. This book introduces the art of our times by taking the reader through a tour of some 70 examples from the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Thematic chapters present artistic categories, concepts and propositions that offer a path toward understanding the different subjects, forms, styles, purposes and techniques of contemporary art. Some, such as portraiture, are long-standing notions in the history of art; others, such as site appropriation, raise provocative questions and may be less immediately obvious. But it is the works themselves--brilliantly conceived by some of the most creative minds of our times--that make the case for embracing contemporary art in all its diversity.
- Series Statement
- MFA highlights
- Uniform Title
- MFA highlights.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- catalogs (documents)
- Catalogs
- Catalogs.
- Catalogues.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 176) and index.
- Contents
- Abstraction -- Portraiture -- Site -- Appropriation -- Process -- Conceptualism.
- ISBN
- 9780878468164
- 0878468161
- LCCN
- 2015951026
- OCLC
- ocn917377099
- 917377099
- SCSB-1843951
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library