- Published: 1 November 2022
- ISBN: 9780262047289
- Imprint: MIT Press
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $140.00
Master of the Two Left Feet
Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered
- Published: 1 November 2022
- ISBN: 9780262047289
- Imprint: MIT Press
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $140.00
Praise for What Was Contemporary Art?
“Amidst the clamor over the increasingly disproportionate attention to contemporary art in the field of art history, Richard Meyer draws our attention to the history of contemporary art—that is, to how the terms modern and contemporary were reckoned with in the past. In the process, he uncovers unexpected stories about a Wellesley College trip to a candy factory, Persian wall frescoes shown in watercolor copies at the Museum of Modern Art, and a manifesto issued by the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston decrying modern art as chicanery. What Was Contemporary Art? implicitly asks, 'Just what is contemporary art?'”
Douglas Crimp, author of “Our Kind of Movie”: The Films of Andy Warhol