The Art of the Twentieth Century. 5. 2000 and Beyond Contemporary Tendencies

The fifth book in the series, this volume concludes this extraordinary publishing project by analyzing the fascinating and controversial phenomena of contemporary art.
Volume V maintains the structure that characterizes the four previous publications, namely a spectacular gallery of images, essays by major contemporary critics and the clever juxtaposition of the most diverse objects and topics.
In contrast, it abandons the historical and thematic reconstructions and reference to the most familiar names and scientific categories, to which contemporary events, by their very nature, cannot be subject. And it chooses to describe the multi-faceted tendencies of the contemporary age as day-to-day events, which as such "directly concern" readers.
Key Sales Information - This is a publication that examines in-depth for the first time the tendencies of contemporary art and finally overcomes the difficulty encountered by art book readers and exhibition visitors.
- This volume presents ten chapters in fact, each written by an international expert in the "artistic culture" of our time. Without any academic pedantry, each of them takes on the specific topic that represents their daily experience more than any other.
- Ample space is also devoted to the critical definitions of contemporary art, to the art market and the new way of collecting, to the relationship between art and politics, to the new, confusing frontiers of photography.
- Each of these major chapters is followed, in alphabetical order, by the biographies of dozens of contemporary artists, illustrated through their most significant works.
Author Valerio Terraroli is professor of the History of Contemporary Art and History of Modern Decorative Arts at the University of Turin.