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Laddar... USA Today: New American Art from the Saatchi Galleryav Meghan Dailey
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This 400-page blockbuster, designed in close consultation with renowned contemporary art collector Charles Saatchi, showcases 250 workspaintings, constructions, sculpture, and photographyby 40 artists from across the U.S.A. This is a new generation of American art; most of the works are less than two years old and focus on artists views of world events and Americas place in global society. Artists profiled include Banks Violette, Kelley Walker, Matthew Monahan, Terence Koh, Christoph Schmidberger, Inka Essenhigh, Dash Snow, Josephine Meckseper and many others. Together, in this stunning volume, they offer an astounding, controversial, and wide-ranging collection. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)709.73090511The arts Modified subdivisions of the arts History, geographic treatment, biography North America United States By Period 21st CenturyKlassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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The book is beautifully presented, the graphic presentation is clear, lively without being intrusive, and the quality of reproduction of the works is of a high standard. The majority are full page in size, sometimes larger. On these points is is hard to fault the book, other than to say I would have liked to have a little more to read about each artist and his/her work.
The works themselves it is harder to be objective about. Firstly, while titled USA Today, rather than an overall view of American art one cannot help but be reminded that this is in fact only that American art that is featured in the Saatchi Gallery - it has already been through a selection process. One is inclined to ask how much is this a true reflection overall of art in the USA today?
The work covers a range of media from the traditional (not a lot), two and three dimensional, and through to photography a DVD; representational, non-representational and abstract. Within the wide range one is bound to find something to interest, but I am still left wondering where art is really going, and worrying about the apparent continued disdain for (or fear of) draughtsmanship and more formal painting. ( )