Abstract

"Julian Spalding, one of the art world's most outspoken critics, explores the modern public's alienation from contemporary art, and makes a powerful plea for the revival of communication, accessibility, and traditional skills in this field. Spalding explores the key ideas underpinning modern art and finds them wanting. He illustrates how artistic craft, learning, content and judgement have each been compromised by commercialism, cynicism and politics. He argues for the revival of an art whose ambition is to communicate, as profoundly and eloquently as it can, with everyone". -Back cover.