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What to read: 10 books on contemporary art and culture
Be In Trend has prepared a selection of 10 books on contemporary art, which will help from different angles to look at the art of the last 100 years. The list includes both non-fiction books and studies of famous contemporary art critics, art historians and philosophers.
What is a work of art today and how can it be? What is modern culture like? These and many other questions, in fact, are set not only by the audience, but also by the actors and researchers themselves. Natural is the process of constantly reviewing all these issues, analyzing what has been done in art over the past few centuries and tracking the artistic processes of our time. Continue reading
Books about the art market
Several years ago I bought almost all books on the art market almost in a row and gradually created my own library of this literature. I have it all in English, because, firstly, I see no reason to read translations of what can be read in the original language (I have this snobbery in relation to both Steinbeck and Financial Times), and secondly, I don’t I heard that someone from compatriots wrote some impressive folio on the topic, like in Russia they built and built (yes they never built) the art market.
So let’s get started. Continue reading