Contemporary Western Artists

Contemporary Art: World Currents
Author Terry Smith argues that, in recent decades, a global shift from modern to contemporary art has occurred: artists everywhere have embraced the c...

Art: Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Artists and Their Work
From the influential craftsmen of the high renaissance to the Dutch masters, and from the rococo and neoclassical movements of the 18th century to rom...

Erotic Ambiguities: The Female Nude in Art
Описание:Erotic Ambiguities explores how feminist artists have responded to traditional depictions of the "ideal female body" which proliferate throug...

Art & Visual Culture 1850-2010: Modernity to Globalization
The essays in this volume engage directly with topical issues around art and gender, globalization, cultural difference, and curating, as well as expl...

American Artists On Art: From 1940 To 1980 (Icon Editions)
From the Preface:The fact that so much of modern art has devoted itself to the exploration and assertion of its own identity is reflected in, but does...