The Art of Looking: How to Read Modern and Contemporary Art by Esplund, Lance
The Art of Looking: How to Read Modern and Contemporary Art by Esplund, Lance

The Art of Looking: How to Read Modern and Contemporary Art

A veteran art critic helps us make sense of modern and contemporary art The landscape of contemporary...
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Author: Lance Esplund
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The Art of Looking: How to Read Modern and Contemporary Art by Esplund, Lance

The Art of Looking: How to Read Modern and Contemporary Art

$71.83
The Art of Looking: How to Read Modern and Contemporary Art by Esplund, Lance

The Art of Looking: How to Read Modern and Contemporary Art

$71.83
Author: Lance Esplund
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A veteran art critic helps us make sense of modern and contemporary art

The landscape of contemporary art has changed dramatically during the last hundred years: from Malevich's 1915 painting of a single black square and Duchamp's 1917 signed porcelain urinal to Jackson Pollock's midcentury drip paintings; Chris Burden's Shoot (1971), in which the artist was voluntarily shot in the arm with a rifle; Urs Fischer's You (2007), a giant hole dug in the floor of a New York gallery; and the conceptual and performance art of today's Ai Weiwei and Marina Abramovic. The shifts have left the art-viewing public (understandably) perplexed.

In The Art of Looking, renowned art critic Lance Esplund demonstrates that works of modern and contemporary art are not as indecipherable as they might seem. With patience, insight, and wit, Esplund guides us through the last century of art and empowers us to approach and appreciate it with new eyes. Eager to democratize genres that can feel inaccessible, Esplund encourages viewers to trust their own taste, guts, and common sense. The Art of Looking will open the eyes of viewers who think that recent art is obtuse, nonsensical, and irrelevant, as well as the eyes of those who believe that the art of the past has nothing to say to our present.

Author: Lance Esplund
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 11/27/2018
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.80w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780465094660


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2018
Choice 06/01/2019

About the Author
Lance Esplund writes about art for the Wall Street Journal. Previously, he was US art critic for Bloomberg News and chief art critic for the New York Sun. He has taught studio art and art history at the Parsons School of Design and Rider University, and has served as visiting MFA critic at the New York Studio School. His essays have appeared in Art in America, Harper's, Modern Painters, and the New Republic among others. Esplund lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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