Ways of Looking: How to Experience Contemporary Art by Ward, Ossian

Ways of Looking: How to Experience Contemporary Art

Art has changed. Today's works of art may have no obvious focal point. Traditional artistic media no...
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Author: Ossian Ward
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Ways of Looking: How to Experience Contemporary Art by Ward, Ossian

Ways of Looking: How to Experience Contemporary Art

CHF 25.64

Ways of Looking: How to Experience Contemporary Art

CHF 25.64
Author: Ossian Ward
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Art has changed. Today's works of art may have no obvious focal point. Traditional artistic media no longer do what we expect of them. The styles and movements that characterized art production prior to the twenty-first century no longer exist.

This book provides a straightforward guide to understanding contemporary art based on the concept of the tabula rasa - a clean slate and a fresh mind. Ossian Ward presents a six-step program that gives readers new ways of looking at some of the most challenging art being produced today. Since artists increasingly work across traditional media and genres, Ward has developed an alternative classification system for contemporary practice such as 'Art as Entertainment', 'Art as Confrontation', 'Art as Joke' -- categories that help to make sense of otherwise obscure-seeming works. There are also 20 'Spotlight' features which guide readers through encounters with key works.

Ultimately, the message is that any encounter with a challenging work of contemporary art need not be intimidating or alienating but rather a dramatic, sensually rewarding, and thought-provoking experience.

Author: Ossian Ward
Publisher: Laurence King
Published: 09/16/2014
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.59w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9781780671932

About the Author
Ossian Ward is Head of Content at the Lisson Gallery. He was chief art critic and visual arts editor at Time Out London and previously served as editor at Art Review, and V&A Magazine. The author of many magazine and newspaper articles, he has also written catalogue essays on numerous contemporary artists.

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