About this title: To reflect the latest developments, in this fifth edition nearly half the book has been rewritten including a wide-ranging introductory chapter and seven new chapters that deal with the latest radical transformations in contemporary art, among them the increasing dominance of the photographic media, film and video, and the emergence of a new post-Post-Expressionist group of 'Abject' artists whose work stresses feelings of alienation in developed Western industrial societies dominated by the collapse of traditional values, often through the reintroduction of narrative. It also discusses the ...
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
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Edition: New Revised Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, London
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780500201978ISBN:0500201978
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 288 pp. Clean pages, no markings, book is in great condition. Printed in Spain. Very tight binding. read more
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Edition: Revised and Augmented
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780500201497ISBN:0500201498
Description: Very Good. No DJ Issued. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. 288 p. No writing, Not ex-library, Not a remainder. 'The World of Art Library'. 243 Illustrations. read more
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Edition: New Rev ed.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780500201978ISBN:0500201978
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Never opened, never read; slight shelf wear. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. World of Art. Audience: General/trade. read more
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Description: Very good. Very neat and clean. Larger paperback published by Thames and Hudson. Illustrated throughout. Light cover wear. Previous owners name inside. UK seller. read more
Edition: Reprint of Revised and Augmented Editio
Binding: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Inc., New York
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780500201497ISBN:0500201498
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Date Published: 2001-05-01
ISBN-13:9780500203446ISBN:050020344X
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"I chose to read this book because simply it was lying around--in fact, it had been lying around since my high school girlfriend left it in my room in 1996--and the book turned out to be as good as my selection criteria. There's not a lot of interesting analysis here, either in terms of historical explanation of trends or more direct critical engagements with the works discussed. In part, this thinness may be a consequence of Lucie-Smith's comprehensiveness: there are an awful lot of artists discussed despite the fairly narrow 30-year focus of the book. That comprehensiveness is helpful for the mostly uninitiated reader, but the breadth really does seem to come at the expense of depth. Lucie-Smith's critical verdicts are almost always conclusory, in that he just tells you what he thinks of a piece or an artist or a movement without really explaining the basis for his judgment. This is a shame, because I found my intuitions in alignment with his--but I want a book of art history and criticism to educate my intuitions, not simply to vindicate them without any explicit warrant."
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