From: art book reviewer
Category: Art
Date: 19 April 2005
Thames and Hudson, has in portentous text on the back: A LANDMARK STUDY IN THE HISTORY OF MODERN ART. A heavy book written by heavyweights (not boxers sadly). Big Year by big year (some years nothing much happened), we see art become cleverer, less textured, and beige-er. Flatness, not in Greenbergian way, but in a move towards manufactured objects, photos, and videos, is the dominant aesthetic tendency. It's all genuinely interesting and there are lots of good pictures. I'm sure the last twenty years will constrcuted differently in twenty year, but who know, academics are lazy, and will most of them step farther than this hunk of book. To the writers, the history!
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