Beyond the Mainstream: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Art (Contemporary Artists and their Critics) - Softcover

Selz, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521556244 ISBN 13: 9780521556248

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1998

Synopsis

This selection of essays, first published in 1998 by a prominent art historian, critic, and curator of modern art, examines the art and artists of the twentieth century who have operated outside the established art world. In lucid and accessible prose, Peter Selz explores modern art as it reflects, and has had an impact on, the tremendous transformation of politics and culture, both in the United States and Europe. An authoritative overview of a neglected phenomenon, his essays explore the complex relationship between art at the periphery and art at the putative centre, and how marginal art has affected that of the mainstream.

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."..insights into art world events and personalities have documentary value....General readers; undergraduates through professionals." Choice

Book Description:

This 1998 selection of essays by a prominent art historian, critic, and curator of modern art, examines twentieth-century art and artists who have operated outside the established art world. In lucid and accessible prose, Peter Selz explores modern art as it reflects the transformation of politics and culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0521556244
• ISBN 13: 9780521556248
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348