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Ways of Looking: How to Experience Contemporary Art

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Navigate contemporary art with innovative, engaging insights.

If modern art often leaves you feeling lost or overwhelmed, "Ways of Looking" could be your art scene compass. Ossian Ward offers a six-step approach to strip away your preconceptions, allowing you to engage with contemporary art on fresh, exciting terms. Forget feeling out of your depth; Ward's accessible breakdowns and spotlight features on key pieces turn puzzlement into pleasure and curiosity.

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Ways of Looking: How to Experience Contemporary Art

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ISBN: 9781780671932
Authors: Ossian Ward
Date of Publication: 2014-09-16
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Art
Related Topics: Design, Art History, Art Design
Goodreads rating: 3.92
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Art has changed. Today's works of art may have no obvious focal point. Traditional artistic media no longer do what we expect of them. The styles and movements that characterized art production prior to the twenty-first century no longer exist. This book provides a straightforward guide to understanding contemporary art based on the concept of the tabula rasa – a clean slate and a fresh mind. Ossian Ward presents a six-step program that gives readers new ways of looking at some of the most challenging art being produced today. Since artists increasingly work across traditional media and genres, Ward has developed an alternative classification system for contemporary practice such as 'Art as Entertainment', 'Art as Confrontation', 'Art as Joke' -- categories that help to make sense of otherwise obscure-seeming works. There are also 20 'Spotlight' features which guide readers through encounters with key works. Ultimately, the message is that any encounter with a challenging work of contemporary art need not be intimidating or alienating but rather a dramatic, sensually rewarding, and thought-provoking experience.
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Navigate contemporary art with innovative, engaging insights.

If modern art often leaves you feeling lost or overwhelmed, "Ways of Looking" could be your art scene compass. Ossian Ward offers a six-step approach to strip away your preconceptions, allowing you to engage with contemporary art on fresh, exciting terms. Forget feeling out of your depth; Ward's accessible breakdowns and spotlight features on key pieces turn puzzlement into pleasure and curiosity.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.