Contemporary Art. Modern Art

Valeria Kosyakova is a Candidate of Cultural Studies, Associate Professor at the Higher School of European Cultures at the Russian State University for the Humanities, founder of the Punctum Centre, and researcher of visual culture. Dmitry Pozdnyakov is a specialist in the history and theory of cinema and visual art, and a cultural studies scholar. This is an entertaining art detective story about revolutions and transformations in art. The authors not only listed the names of famous artists, movements, schools and their characteristics, but also explained how and why art has changed over the past century and a half. Why is contemporary art so different from artistic explorations of foretime? How have ideas about beauty transformed, and how has the role of the artist in society changed? What will help us understand contemporary art? How does it differ from the art that is being created right before our eyes, here and now? The current analytical theories and various interpretative approaches discussed in the book will help readers gain the critical distance needed for a panoramic view of 20th-century visual culture.

Valeria Kosyakova, Dmitry Pozdnyakov. Contemporary Art. Modern Art. — Moscow: AST Publishing House, 2024.