The Story of Contemporary Art

Tony Godfrey

In the 1960s, artists began to abandon traditional forms of art and started to make work that questioned the very definition of ‘art’. In a rapidly changing world, art is a mirror to the human experience, but who is telling the story? From object versus sculpture and painting versus conceptual to local versus global, gallery versus wider world, The Story of Contemporary Art traces a history in terms of drastic changes in social and political life over the last sixty years.