An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Art - Hardcover

Today it is not the audience, the galleries or the funders who are the problem in modern art, it is the artists. Stephen Farthing, an artist writing from an artist's perspective, argues that his profession is an organism under constant attack from itself. It creates both stunning works and crass tabloid pieces that pander to the media. In this book Stephen Farthing takes a critical look at his colleagues, offering a new way approach to art which shuns art historians, connoisseurs and postmodernism. Taking the reader from Eric Gill to Damien Hirst, and from Goering in Nazi Germany to Saatchi in 1999, he paints a picture of modern art as artists see it: an art for everyone to enjoy.