Beauty: In Some Recent Art

Beauty: In Some Recent ArtThe term beauty has been all but expunged from recent art criticism. And yet beauty remains a quality that many artists over the last 50 years have regarded as vital to their work, in both form and subject matter. This book comprises a timely and controversial assertion of beauty as vital to the energy of contemporary art, from Gilbert & George as supreme aesthetes to contemporary artists as varied in their practice as Isa Genzken, Kai Althoff, Lucy

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