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Summary: ILLUMINATES THE WORK OF TODAY'S VANGUARD ARTISTS
Review: "...a new book specifically designed to eliminate the mystery and confusion from avant-garde art of the 70's, 80's and 90's. Author Linda Weintraub illuminates the works of today's vanguard artists and presents them in an engaging and articulate manner. In so doing, the book not only serves to bring new light and understanding to the lay person, but the astute art professional as well, who thought they knew it all, or were afraid to admit they didn't..."...Weintraub has made a significant contribution to bridge the communication gap between artist and viewer...The artists and their works are shown in the context of society's influence on them in addition to their impact on society." Gordon Dane, Manhattan Arts International
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Summary: THERE IS NO BOOK LIKE THE PRESENT BOOK
Review: "...people are almost universally unprepared to respond to the vanguard art of our present age...This makes a guidebook indispensable...we have to encounter this art in terms the history of viewing has not prepared us for...Just as there is no art like it, there is no book like the present book...I am beyond measure grateful that Linda Weintraub has undertaken the immense labor that making this art available must have required. All of us who care about art...are greatly in her debt."Arthur C. Danto, from the Foreword
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Summary: ILLUMINATES THE WORK OF TODAY'S VANGUARD ARTISTS
Review: "...a new book specifically designed to eliminate the mystery and confusion from avant-garde art of the 70's, 80's and 90's. Author Linda Weintraub illuminates the works of today's vanguard artists and presents them in an engaging and articulate manner. In so doing, the book not only serves to bring new light and understanding to the lay person, but the astute art professional as well, who thought they knew it all, or were afraid to admit they didn't...
"...Weintraub has made a significant contribution to bridge the communication gap between artist and viewer...The artists and their works are shown in the context of society's influence on them in addition to their impact on society."
Gordon Dane, Manhattan Arts International
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Summary: THERE IS NO BOOK LIKE THE PRESENT BOOK
Review: "...people are almost universally unprepared to respond to the vanguard art of our present age...This makes a guidebook indispensable...we have to encounter this art in terms the history of viewing has not prepared us for...Just as there is no art like it, there is no book like the present book...I am beyond measure grateful that Linda Weintraub has undertaken the immense labor that making this art available must have required. All of us who care about art...are greatly in her debt."
Arthur C. Danto, from the Foreword
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Summary: AN EXCELLENT EDUCATIONAL TOOL
Review: "Art on the Edge and Over is an excellent educational tool for people who need an introduction to the latest trends and developments in the visual arts."
Robert C. Morgan, art critic
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Summary: SUPERB PREPARATION TO MUSEUM AND GALLERY GOERS
Review: "Curator and educator Weintraub...provides superb preparation to museum and gallery goers who may be confronting these exasperating works for the first time. The clear highly sensitive essays discuss Andres Serrano's photo of a crucifix submerged in urine; the half ton of dirty clothes Christian Boltanski piled on a museum floor worn by children of the Holocaust..."
Joan Levin, Library Journal
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Summary: "Edge's" Insights Help Clarify, Amplify 35 Artists' Voices
Review: ..."Art on the Edge and Over" [is] the sort of publishing experiment that anyone with an interest in contemporary art should seek out. Why? Because books on art don't try terribly hard to communicate with a wide audience, and this one does.
...Her prose is refreshingly straightforward--doubly so because many of the 35 artists she covers are creating complex art.
...If you're familiar with an artist's work, you'll still gain insights into his or her vision. If you don't, Weintraub's chapters are sound, sensitive primers. It's tough to accomplish both tasks, but she does.
Robert L. Pincus, San Diego Union-Tribune
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Summary: A little of this and a little of that
Review: Anyone who wants to become familiar with intricacies of what can be the confusing world of post-modern art should read this book. The author does an excellent job of presenting an interesting cross-section of significant and fascinating collection of atypical artists. Pretty much every artist who is included has done their share of expanding the contemporary definition of Art in the Western and Non-western tradition. Over all, this compendium of essays does much to open the door to widen the reader's perspective on what art can do. The one aspect of this book that is troublesome is that the author often seems to focus on only one or two aspects of an artist's works, a habit that is frustrating at best and misleading at worst. While doing outside research on one of the artists included, Mel Chin, I was convinced there were two artists with the same name, as the perspective provided in the book did not prepare me for the artist's full range of activities. Still, this complaint should not stop an interested party from purchasing the book. I for one did not feel my money ill-spent.
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Summary: Almost a bull's-eye
Review: Anyone who wants to become familiar with intricacies of what can be the confusing world of post-modern art should read this book. The author does an excellent job of presenting an interesting cross-section of significant and fascinating collection of atypical artists. Pretty much every artist who is included has done their share of expanding the contemporary definition of Art in the Western and Non-western tradition. Over all, this compendium of essays does much to open the door to widen the reader's perspective on what art can do. The one aspect of this book that is troublesome is that the author often seems to focus on only one or two aspects of an artist's works, a habit that is frustrating at best and misleading at worst. While doing outside research on one of the artists included, Mel Chin, I was convinced there were two artists with the same name, as the perspective provided in the book did not prepare me for the artist's full range of activities. Still, this complaint should not stop an interested party from purchasing the book. I for one did not feel my money ill-spent.
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Summary: A little of this and a little of that
Review: as a MFA student thats currently being educated by "the institution" i find myself flip flopping between wanting to drop out or drop in...this book didn't save me but it sure put things in perspective, never before in a book have I seen cover such topics where you can find Barbara Kruger and James Luna and Joseph Beuys and Tomie Arai between the same cover's in a book. This book also addresses an important issue for me. race. The art world is racist and if you don't know that just look around, art is life and a reflection of society and if you dont know that its because your a white (sorry but its true). This book may not address it but it surely helps to have some artists of color represented (although they aren't near the best art makers).
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