Avant-Garde and After: Rethinking Art Now - Tapa blanda

For a course on Contemporary Art. Offering a critical perspective-rather than a traditional survey, this provocative text explores the art of the last twenty years-the latter 1970s, the 1980s, and the first half of the 1990s-in both a thematic and chronological fashion. Using an engaging and approachable style-and an abundance of color illustrations, it takes a long look at dominant tendencies in contemporary art in the United States, Western and Eastern Europe, and Russia-and provides a series of challenging view points on the most advanced art forms, themes, and issues.

Brandon Taylor is professor in the department of history of art and design, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, England.