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How Photography Became Contemporary Art : Inside an Artistic Revolution from Pop to the Digital Age

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'a vibrant, opinionated, authoritative guide to the medium’s past and present.' - FT Book of the Year

A leading critic's inside story of "the photo boom" during the crucial decades of the 1970s and 80s

When Andy Grundberg landed in New York in the early 1970s as a budding writer, photography was at the margins of the contemporary art world. By 1991, when he left his post as critic for the New York Times, photography was at the vital center of artistic debate. Grundberg writes eloquently and authoritatively about photography's "boom years," chronicling the medium's increasing role within the most important art movements of the time, from Earth Art and Conceptual Art to performance and video.

He also traces photography's embrace by museums and galleries, as well as its politicization in the culture wars of the 80s and 90s. Grundberg reflects on the landmark exhibitions that defined the moment and his encounters with the work of leading photographers-many of whom he knew personally-including Gordon Matta-Clark, Cindy Sherman, and Robert Mapplethorpe. He navigates crucial themes such as photography's relationship to theory as well as feminism and artists of color.

Part memoir and part history, this perspective by one of the period's leading critics ultimately tells a larger story about the crucial decades of the 70s and 80s through the medium of photography.

Details
  • Author: Andy Grundberg
  • Hardcover: 296 pages 
  • Date published: March 2021
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 978-0300234107
  • Product Dimensions: 26.2 x 18.7 cm
Reviews

'[A] fine book . . . a personal yet balanced account' - Washington Post

'Grundberg convincingly illustrates the 'artistic revolution' of his subtitle. . . . A comprehensive and legible introduction. . . . Enlightening, pleasurable, and valuable'- Afterimage

'A must read for those who want insight into the art world and the art womb of New York City from the turbulent 1970s to the present. Grundberg captures an era and his life in the arts with precision, purpose, and perspicacity' - New York Journal of Books

'a vibrant, opinionated, authoritative guide to the medium’s past and present.' - FT Book of the Year

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