Laurence King Publishing

Laurence King Publishing - Ways of looking: how to experience contemporary art | ossian ward

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• Art has changed
• Those reassuringly familiar styles and movements that characterised art production prior to the twenty-first century have all vanished
• Traditional artistic media no longer do what we expect of them
• This book provides a straightforward
• Six-step programme for understanding contemporary art based on the concept of the tabula rasa a clean slate and a fresh mind
• Since artists increasingly work across traditional media and genres
• The author has also developed an alternative classification system Art as Entertainment
• Art as Confrontation
• Art as Joke designed to help make sense of otherwise obscure-seeming works
• Ways of Looking transforms a potentially intimidating encounter with cuttingedge contemporary art into a dramatic