【英语阅读材料】当代艺术contemporaryart.doc

Contemporary art
Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced since World War II.
Contemporary art is exhibited by commercial contemporary art galleries, private collectors, corporations, publicly funded arts organizations, contemporary art museums or by artists themselves in artist-run spaces. Contemporary artists are supported by grants, awards and prizes as well as by direct sales of their work.
There are close relationships between publicly funded contemporary art organisations and the commercial sector. For instance, in Britain a handful of dealers represent the artists featured in leading publicly funded contemporary art museums.
Individual collectors can wield considerable influence. Charles Saatchi dominated the contemporary art market in Britain during the 1980s and the 1990s; the subtitle of the 1999 book Young British Artists: The Saatchi Decade uses the name of the private collector to define an entire decade of contemporary art production
Corporations have attempted to integrate themselves into the contemporary art world: exhibiting contemporary art within their premises, organising and sponsoring contemporary art awards and building up extensive collections of corporate art.
At any one time a particular place or group of artists can have a strong influence on globally produced contemporary art; for instance New York artists in the 1980s.
This table lists art movements by decade. It should not be assumed to be conclusive.

1950s
· Abstract Expressionism
· American Figurative Expressionism
· Bay Area Figurative Movement
· Lyrical Abstraction
· New York Figurative Expressionism
· New York School
1960s
· Abstract expressionism
· American Figurative Expressionism
· Abstract Imagists
· Bay Area Figurative Movement
· Color field
· Computer art
· Conceptual art
· Fluxus
· Happenings
· Hard-edge painting
· Lyrical Abstraction
· Minimalism
· Neo-Dada
· New York School
· Nouveau Réalisme
· Op Art
· Performance art
· Pop Art
· Postminimalism
· Washington Color School
· Kinetic art
1970s
· Arte Povera
· Bad Painting
· Body art
· Artist's book
· Feminist art
· Installation art
· Land Art
· Photorealism
· Postminimalism
· Video art
· Pattern and Decoration
1980s
· Appropriation art
· Electronic art
· Figuration Libre
· Graffiti Art
· Live art
· Postmodern art
· Neo-conceptual art
· Neo-expressionism
· Neo-pop
· Sound art
· Video installation
1990s
Cyberarts
Digital Art
· Information art
· Internet art
· Maximalism
· New media art
· Software art
· New European Painting
· Young British Artists
2000s
· Classical realism
· Street art
· Superflat
· Videogame art
· Virtual