Art on the Edge...and Over
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Book Overview
In this highly accessible introduction to American art since the 1970s, Linda Weintraub offers art lovers a readable exploration of some of the most important artists and movements of the past three decades. Today artists routinely dissolve the old boundaries of art by creating works that neither hang on walls nor adorn pedestals, and often willfully overturn conventions of aesthetic value, permanence and optical reward. Curator and educator Weintraub has researched and/or interviewed 35 prominent radical artists and here explores their common concerns, creative processes and media. Devoting one essay to each artist, Weintraub offers a primer for museum and gallery goers who may be confronting such works for the first time, discussing Andres Serrano's photo of a crucifix submerged in urine, the half ton of dirty clothes Christian Boltanski piled on a museum floor worn by children of the Holocaust, Janine Antoni's mammoth blocks of chocolate and lard, Chuck Close's computer art and David Hammon's detritus constructions.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0965198812
ISBN13:9780965198813
Release Date:January 1996
Publisher:Art Insights
Length:264 Pages
Weight:1.56 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 7.2" x 9.9"
Customer Reviews
5 ratings
Great buy
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
The book is very informative on the artists,talks about their different pieces, I just wish it was in color instead of black and white because it takes away from the pieces meaning and depth
THE BEST BOOK FOR TEACHING ART OF THE '70s TO '90s
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
I have tried out a lot of books for teaching college courses about art of the '70s, '80s, '90s...this new book by Linda Weintraub...is the best for teaching I have found thus far...Weintraub is artist- and reader-friendly. She imagines intelligent readers outside the narrow borders of the art world...I find her emphasis on the artist's point of view a refreshing antidote to all those other "histories" in which the artists' voices have disappeared. Jean Robertson, New Art Examiner
"Edge's" Insights Help Clarify, Amplify 35 Artists' Voices
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 28 years ago
..."Art on the Edge and Over" [is] the sort of publishing experiment that anyone with an interest in contemporary art should seek out. Why? Because books on art don't try terribly hard to communicate with a wide audience, and this one does. ...Her prose is refreshingly straightforward--doubly so because many of the 35 artists she covers are creating complex art. ...If you're familiar with an artist's work, you'll still gain insights into his or her vision. If you don't, Weintraub's chapters are sound, sensitive primers. It's tough to accomplish both tasks, but she does. Robert L. Pincus, San Diego Union-Tribune
THERE IS NO BOOK LIKE THE PRESENT BOOK
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 28 years ago
"...people are almost universally unprepared to respond to the vanguard art of our present age...This makes a guidebook indispensable...we have to encounter this art in terms the history of viewing has not prepared us for...Just as there is no art like it, there is no book like the present book...I am beyond measure grateful that Linda Weintraub has undertaken the immense labor that making this art available must have required. All of us who care about art...are greatly in her debt." Arthur C. Danto, from the Foreword
AN EXCELLENT EDUCATIONAL TOOL
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 28 years ago
"Art on the Edge and Over is an excellent educational tool for people who need an introduction to the latest trends and developments in the visual arts." Robert C. Morgan, art critic
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