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Don’t believe the hype about contemporary art | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

by Paddy Johnson on May 27, 2011 · 3 comments

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  • http://www.facebook.com/alexcarlill Alex Carlill

    not that Jones is a particularly worthwhile critic, but I think you’ve missed the point of this piece – he’s not saying that contemporary art is rubbish, just that, looking back at the proportion of artists from any given era that are considered “memorable”, the number of contemporary artists acclaimed as such now is probably an exaggeration… which is a fairly weak/useless point, but not a criticism of contemporary art per se or a claim that it’s less valuable than that of previous eras or movements.

    • Anonymous

      I get that this is the point — I just meant to demonstrate the weakness of this piece as a discussion point. In reality there is a lot to discuss when we talk about the state of contemporary. Very little new is being made right now, I’m seeing a lot of reliance on modernism (particularly in Europe), and I feel like part of that is a reflect of current curator taste. None of this comes up in that article though, which is really about nothing. Jones is too frequently a very lazy critic IMO.  

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