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Art Now!: v. 2 (25th Anniversary Special Edtn) from: Taschen GmbH List Price: £7.99 City Travel Guides Price: £5.99 You Save: £2.00 (25%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 709 EAN: 9783836503242 ISBN: 3836503247 Label: Taschen GmbH Manufacturer: Taschen GmbH Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 349 Publication Date: October 25, 2008 Publisher: Taschen GmbH Studio: Taschen GmbH Sales Rank: 9853 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - At this price, it is a steal! (25th Century Edition)I bought a copy of this book for an artist friend a couple of months ago and paid around £25 for it. This is a newer (2008) edition and has literally hundreds of photos and illustrations. A very, very attractive book, like all Taschen offerings, and I would call it a huge bargain. With free shipping (thanks to Amazon Prime) there is no reason why one should not buy a copy right away. About the book: It is a survey of the contemporary art and gives a nice overall picture of what is happening in the world of photography, painting and architecture. Taschen would not be organised, no not them! The book has everything thrown in and the only order that is followed is the surnames of the artists in alphabetical order. (Follow Taschen ... Read More: Rating: - A useful survey of art today - but note the different editions!As is sometime the case with Amazon, they group reviews for different editions of a book together. For the record there are several editions of ART NOW: "ART NOW 137 Artists at the Rise of the New Millennium", ISBN 382281444X (pub June 2002) This reasonable size book, it measures 25.5cmm x 20cm (10"x8"), 640 pages, and is packed full if images. It covers the work of 137 different artists from the areas of painting, photography, film and video, sculpture, performance art and installation. Each artist is allotted four pages, has a brief introduction of one paragraph (printed in English, German and French), along with a thumb-nail photograph of the artist and a short list of selected exhibitions and bibliography. The pictures ... Read More: Rating: - ExcellentAs with all Taschen art books, this has beautiful and huge colour prints throughout and is a facinating look at a little bit about vast varieties of different modern artists. Extremely interesting, even for those with no interest in art. Rating: - Great!This book is a continuation of the book "Art at the turn of the Millenium". It follows exactly the same format. Each artist has four pages of photographs dedicated to his or her work. There is also a small paragraph about the artist and a mug shot of the artist's head. Unfortunately, the problems with the origional book have carried through to this one. The captions to the pictures are unhelpfull, especially with installation and film work and there is little quality writing about the artist in question. However, the book is extremely concentrated and none (as far as I can see) of the works featured in the origional book are featured here, even though many of the artists are. The works on show are thus those ... Read More: |
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