Art Versus Nonart: Art Out of Mind (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521154802)

Tsion Avital poses the question: "Is modern art--art at all?" He argues that the nonrepresentational art produced in the twentieth century was not actually art, but rather the debris of the visual tradition it replaced. Modern art has thrived on the state of total confusion existing between art and pseudo-art and the inability of many to distinguish between them. As Avital demonstrates, modern art has served as a critical intermediate stage between art of the past and the future.

Author: Tsion Avital
ISBN-10: 0521154804
ISBN-13: 9780521154802
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/14/2011
Pages: 462
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.61lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.93d