Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century - Hardcover

Benezra, Neal; Danto, Arthur Coleman; Viso, Olga M.; Hirshhorn Museum And Sculpture Garden Smithsonian Institution

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3893227822 ISBN 13: 9783893227822

Publisher: Hatje Cantz, 2000

Synopsis

Hard to Find book

About this title

Synopsis:

Surveys late-20th-century Western art to address why the notion of beauty has recently been so hotly contested and, in the 1980s and 1990s in particular, so highly politicized. Are there accepted standards of beauty, or does beauty exist solely in the mind? Is beauty eternal, or a fleeting experience subject to changing fashion and tastes? Can one find beauty in ugliness? This book argues that beauty has not disappeared from the dialogue of art and that it has persisted as an essential element in the evolution of art as the 20th century passes into history. Among the artists featured are: Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Willem de Kooning, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Douglas Gordon, Roy Lichenstein, Agnes Martin, Mariko Mori, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, James Turrell and Andy Warhol.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hatje Cantz
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 3893227822
• ISBN 13: 9783893227822
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232