{"id":12234,"date":"2022-01-28T11:31:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T11:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/?p=12234"},"modified":"2022-01-28T11:31:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T11:31:31","slug":"contemporary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/?p=12234","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Contemporary art<\/span><\/p>\n

The problem isn\u2019t just that nobody can agree on what contemporary art is; it\u2019s that nobody knows when the contemporary era begins.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mark Rothko said that Rembrandt was the first contemporary artist. It Is far isn’t it? Some curators see a likely candidate in 1989: the year of the Berlin Wall\u2019s fall. Other influential figures have offered different start dates, ranging from the early 1970s to 1945 to the 1910s. Search the prevalence of the phrase \u201ccontemporary art\u201d in print between the early 19th and 21st centuries on Google Books, and you\u2019ll find that the term was virtually unused for 120 years. There is no precise date in history when the contemporary era begins, any more than there is a precise answer to the question \u201cWhat is the sound of one hand clapping?\u201d But the temptation to find that date seems to be all but irresistible for art historians: By the time they get around to figuring out what the contemporary era is, it will be contemporary no longer. A quote by a great novelist (who may or may not be contemporary) comes to mind: \u201cIf they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don\u2019t have to worry about answers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Location: KunstHistoriche Museum Vienna, Austria\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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