{"id":189,"date":"2006-09-12T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=189"},"modified":"2006-09-12T23:35:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T23:35:00","slug":"art-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2006\/09\/art-now.html","title":{"rendered":"Art Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/3822840939\/tradgirl\" target='new'>Art Now: 81 Artists at the Rise of the New Millennium<\/a> looked good at a glance.  I enjoy modern art more than the old masters because of the variety, inventiveness, and change of subject.  I get tired of portraits, madonnas, and landscapes.  Unfortunately the book doesn&#8217;t cover its material well, at least not if you&#8217;re an outsider as I am.  It reads like a yearbook.  For each of the artists covered, it gives vital statistics, important shows, a quote, a paragraph summarizing the artist&#8217;s works, and several photos.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds great, but it&#8217;s not.  The paragraph is written in psuedo-speak.  There&#8217;s not a meaningful sentence in there.  The photos are often of installations &#8211; pictures of video stills from movies or views of some enourmous construction.  There&#8217;s no way to get a sense of the actual work.  Worse, the paragraph and photos don&#8217;t correspond.  While the paragraph may go on and on about the artist&#8217;s most important work, analyzing its so-called meaning, the photo will then be of something else entirely, which is left completely unexplained.  It&#8217;s as though the book assumes we&#8217;re familir with the artist&#8217;s work and don&#8217;t need to actually see it.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps if you know these people and their work, this is an interesting remembrance.  As a way to learn about modern artists or artistic trends, it&#8217;s useless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art Now: 81 Artists at the Rise of the New Millennium looked good at a glance. I enjoy modern art more than the old masters because of the variety, inventiveness, and change of subject. I get tired of portraits, madonnas, and landscapes. Unfortunately the book doesn&#8217;t cover its material well, at least not if you&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}