ART 311: Contemporary Art

A timely survey that addresses the relationship between art and electronic technology, including mechanics, light, graphics, robots, virtual reality and the web

A completely new section maps the developments in contemporary art since 2000 - including the increasing influence of social and political change, globalized culture, the art market and social media on artists working today - ensuring that Art Since 1960 remains an indispensable source of information on the evolution of art over the past five-and-a-half decades. This intelligently argued critical overview is invaluable for the way in which it reveals and makes coherent sense of the often bewildering diversity of styles, forms, media, techniques and agendas that proliferate in contemporary art. Art Since 1960 covers the key movements and styles of the period, from Pop, Minimalism and Conceptualism to Arte Povera, land and environmental art, photorealism, performance and graffiti art.

Prints and Their Makers takes you behind the scenes to witness the creative process at the world's top printmaking workshops. Master printer Phil Sanders offers an in-depth look at this versatile medium and places contemporary prints and practices in the context of traditions and techniques developed over more than a thousand years.

An authoritative, richly illustrated history of six centuries of global protest art. Spanning continents and centuries, Protest! presents a major new chronological look at protest graphics. Available both as a physical book and as an ebook.

An instant classic--a lively new introduction to contemporary art that stretches from Andy Warhol's Brillo boxes to Marina Abramović's performance art to today's biennale circuit and million-dollar auctions.

This classic account of the history of the visual arts from the end of World War II to the new millennium has now been completely rewritten, revised, expanded, and updated. The fifth edition reflects the latest developments in a wide-ranging introduction and nine new chapters that deal with the radical transformations that have taken place in contemporary art.

Defining Contemporary Art today tells the story of the 200 pivotal artworks of the past 25 years. With insightful texts and generous illustrations, it offers the most complete, accurate and easy-to-use guide to the history of contemporary art.

This book presents interdisciplinary scholarship on art and visual culture that explores disability in terms of lived experience. It will expand critical disability studies scholarship on representation and embodiment, which is theoretically rich, but lacking in attention to art.

Historical Dictionary of Contemporary Art contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography, including more than 900 cross-referenced entries on important artists, styles, terms, and movements. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about contemporary art.

The story of art as it's never been told before, from the Renaissance to the present day, with more than 300 works of art.

Learn to embrace life like an artist with this playful compilation of emerging and established women artists.

In 2013 Georg Baselitz declared that 'women don't paint very well'. Whilst shocking, his comments reveal what Helen Gørrill argues is prolific discrimination in the artworld. An essential text for students and teachers, Gørrill's book is provocative and challenges existing methodologies whilst introducing shocking evidence. She proves how the price of being a woman impacts upon all forms of artistic currency, be it social, cultural or economic and in the vanguard of the 'Me Too' movement calls for the artworld to take action.

A survey of the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). The volume reproduces a selection of paintings, drawings, collages, silkscreens and three-dimensional constructions. The text, includes essays, exploring Basquiat's artistic contributions from several perspectives.

The fourth edition of the essential introduction to digital art, one of contemporary art's most exciting and dynamic forms of practice. By looking at the ways in which internet art, digital installation, software art, AR and VR have emerged as recognized artistic practices, Digital Art is an essential critical guide.

A leading figure in the world of networked culture explores the artists and events that defined the mass medium of our time Since 1989, the year the World Wide Web was born, the art world has grappled with the rise of networked culture. Tracing the key artists and innovators from the emergence of browser-based art to the dawn of NFTs, this is a tale for the present and the future.

A fascinating look at the history of film and television animation in the United States, from the animated comic strips of the early 1900s to the proliferation of animation companies and hit films of the present.

In the 21st century photography has come of age as a contemporary art form. This book provides an introduction to the extraordinary range of contemporary art photography, from portraits of intimate life to highly staged, 'directorial' spectacle. This new edition revitalizes previous discussion of works from the 2000s through dialogue with more recent practice.