Art Now: Artists at the Rise of the New Millennium

Taschen 25

by Uta Grosenick (Editor), Burkhard Riemschneider (Editor)

Contemporary art in a nutshell (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) This Art Now 25th anniversary special edition brings together recent work and biographical information for over 80 of today's most influential artists, forming a broad and vibrant spectrum of the work that has shaped the art world in recent years. Featured artists include: Matthew Barney, Maurizio Cattelan, John Currin, Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Rineke Dijkstra, Douglas Gordon, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Hirschhorn, Damien Hirst, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Sharon Lockhart, Won Ju Lim, Paul McCarthy, Mariko Mori, Sarah Morris, Vik Muniz, Takashi Murakami, Shirin Neshat, Albert Oehlen, Chris Ofili, Gabriel Orozco, Jorge Pardo, Elizabeth Peyton, Thomas Ruff, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Luc Tuymans, Jeff Wall, and Andrea Zittel.

Genres: Art, Art Design, Nonfiction, Art History, Reference, Design

352 pages, Hardcover

First published September 30, 2002

Reviews

[Sharon Barrow Wilfong · Rating 2 out of 5]

The value of this book for me was informing me of today's artists, most of whom are my age more or less.

Again, like the last book, I found the language obscure and pretentious. I learned nothing as to why any of the artists used certain mediums, what they were trying to express through their mediums or what motivated them.

Here's an example of how the artists described their work:

"I want people to feel drenched in time."

"To be defeated, power must be approached, reappropriated (sic) and endlessly replicated."

"Everything must be noticeable for its foulness."

"I once called my pictures post-non-representational painting and later I called them Procrustean painting....I mean being unmerciful with materials."

I mean you can't even make fun of that because the artists are already parodies.

And you can quote me on that.

[Aaron the Pink Donut · Rating 3 out of 5]

A little of this and a little of that. Nice collection in a nice format.

[Anđelka Jovanović]

Art is not a technique, it is only 15% technique, the rest is open to disscusion, which lacks in art circles.

[Francine Fang · Rating 3 out of 5]

Too general

[brian tanabe · Rating 5 out of 5]

I LOVE the Taschen Now series.

Expected highpoints: the humanity of John Currin and the brilliance of Takashi Murakami.

Surprising highpoints: the modern surreal interpretations of Glenn Brown, the perceptions of reality and our culture from the uncommon viewpoint of Andreas Gursky, and what I call the aboriginally-influenced work of Chris Ofili.

I could eat up these books all day.

[Rebekah Lazaridis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Contemporary art images and short bios on the artists.

[Donmacho Keller · Rating 3 out of 5]

In order to be an artist in the new millennium, you have to be 35 years old and Brittish.

[Denis Nikolov · Rating 1 out of 5]

So we can call everything art? Even an empty room with a toilet in it?