{"product_id":"how-photography-became-contemporary-art-andy-grundberg-9780300234107","title":"How Photography Became Contemporary Art: Inside an Artistic Revolution from Pop to the Digital Age","description":"\u003cb\u003eA leading critic's inside story of \"the photo boom\" during the crucial decades of the 1970s and '80s\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Grundberg . . . is a vibrant, opinionated, authoritative guide to the medium's past and present.\"--Jackie Wullschl臠er, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times, \u003c\/i\u003e \"Best Books of 2021: Visual Arts\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When Andy Grundberg landed in New York in the early 1970s as a budding writer, photography was at the margins of the contemporary art world. By 1991, when he left his post as critic for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, photography was at the vital center of artistic debate. Grundberg writes eloquently and authoritatively about photography's \"boom years,\" chronicling the medium's increasing role within the most important art movements of the time, from Earth Art and Conceptual Art to performance and video. He also traces photography's embrace by museums and galleries, as well as its politicization in the culture wars of the 1980s and '90s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Grundberg reflects on the landmark exhibitions that defined the moment and his encounters with the work of leading photographers--many of whom he knew personally--including Gordon Matta-Clark, Cindy Sherman, and Robert Mapplethorpe. He navigates crucial themes such as photography's relationship to theory as well as feminism and artists of color. Part memoir and part history, this perspective by one of the period's leading critics ultimately tells a larger story about the crucial decades of the 1970s and '80s through the medium of photography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andy Grundberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300234104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300234107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/06\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.20h x 7.30w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2021 pg. 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2022","brand":"Andy Grundberg","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44051255132415,"sku":"9780300234107","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7a163753-d190-4e2a-9701-c4d0536bc220.jpg?v=1685012004","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-photography-became-contemporary-art-andy-grundberg-9780300234107","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}