Product Description

Want a head start on the things you ll be seeing in art institutions a decade down the road? It s all in here, the very latest of the very best and so fresh you can feel its pulse. A to Z magazine-style entries include short biographies, exhibition history and bibliographical information, and images of important recent work. The illustrated appendix features names and contact information for the galleries representing the artists featured as well as primary market prices and examples of auction results. Think of this tome as a global go-round of the world s most influential galleries: a truly invaluable, invigorating, and intense experience.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32133 in Books
• Published on: 2008-12-01
• Original language: French, German, English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 608 pages

About the Author
Book designer and editor Hans Werner Holzwarth started as a typographer and communication designer, then co-led his own company for corporate design. Since 1992, Holzwarth has focused on book design, collaborating with Larry Clark, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Issey Miyake, Albert Oehlen, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Kiki Smith, Juergen Teller, Jeff Wall, John Waters, Christopher Wool, and many others. His many titles for TASCHEN include Taschen Collection, Martin Kippenberger, and Jeff Koons.

Customer Reviews

Nothing really new....
So there's Big Names from the Eighties and Nineties... Yawn. Nothing truly new and fresh or The Art Of The New Century here. Out in the world there's already a ton of up and comers building on people like Koons and taking it further- where are they in this book?

Get this from the library and look at it for some Where Are They Now and How Much $$$ Are They Worth. Or even buy it to play the University Art School game. But mostly, this is a book behind the times based on the In Club structure that has dominated the art world since WWII. The Internet has exploded the In Club and so much truly interesting stuff is going on! And Taschen is just plain missing the boat on New Art. It's just the same old stuff over and over...

Best to put your money and your effort into finding out what's up in Japan, and has been for two decades. Go read Dali's predictions on the future of art and how his work would feed junk sold in shopping malls to philistines- and think about it. Our world is completely changed from twenty years ago in ways nobody ever imagined, and people really think the same old stuff from the same old establishment holds any new meaning? Come on!

I have the BFA/MFA/Art History education. I like my art with relevance to the world of today. None here. A book solely on Koons would have been the signpost to the future that's now.

Not as good as Vol. 1 & 2
This is a good book but I think that 1 and 2 are much better. This one has great artist in it like the others but the eassys boring. But it does make me want to look at more art.

read the book as art news
it is easy to read and let me know many contemporary artists,read it as art newspaper.