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Look Again (How to Experience the Old Masters) by Ossian Ward
Category: Art and Design
The art of the past can seem very far away, obscured both by time and by knotty academic theory. Foregrounding the experience of the contemporary viewer, Look Again shows how this need not be the case. Ossian Ward's simple, ten-step programme acts as an aid to looking, breaking down the often obscure st ...Show more
Marina Abramovic by Ossian Ward
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art File Ser.
Marina Abramović has truly pioneered performance as a visual art form. Her work - notorious for its feats of endurance, pain and intense physical encounter - has pushed the boundaries of contemporary art and cemented her reputation as one of the most significant artists of the past 50 years. ...Show more
Ways of Looking: How to Experience Contemporary Art by Ossian Ward
Category: Art and Design | Series: Elephant Books
Art has changed. Those reassuringly familiar styles and movements that characterised art production prior to the twenty-first century have all vanished. Traditional artistic media no longer do what we expect of them. This book provides a straightforward, six-step programme for understanding contemporary ...Show more
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