AntiXrestomatia

Before you is not a reference or a dictionary of styles and directions. The author of the book introduces readers to contemporary art, with the masters who are close to him, and gives his own interpretation of their works. The book is written in a simple and clear language, which makes complex material accessible to our growing children, their friends and relatives of all ages. This is a kind of "simulator": on the example of an analysis of a number of works, it is shown how you can use your own cultural baggage for interpretation. So, realizing that the "wrong interpretations" today, by definition, cannot be - become an active co -author of contemporary artists.
69 art masters of the end of the XIX - early XXI centuries, including European, Soviet /Russian and American authors (artists, sculptors, photographers and architects), are shown in the lively stream of art development. They are represented not only by textbook work, and young authors are adjacent to the master, as is the case in life.
We learn to interpret different works together, differing in the time of creation and power of sound, because at exhibitions we meet with the most diverse material that we should not be afraid! This publication can be used by teachers as a methodological manual.
"Antichrestomatia" is when about K. Malevich without a “black square”, about socialist realism without Stalinism, about A. Matisse without a “red room”, about G. Korzhev as a contemporary of A. Cartier -Bresson, about a positive utopian M. Pistoletto, about the G. Mura and architecture of T. Ando, ​​about the role of water in the works of B. Viola and the air in the works of Christ, about the "fear of the void" in the digital art of D. Kanogar, about garbage, sugar and dust as Materials for creativity and much more.
"Antichrestomatia" is when, using the example of an analysis of 69 works, it is shown how you can use your own cultural baggage for interpretation. So - how to become an active co -author of contemporary artists, understanding that there can be no wrong interpretations today by definition.
"Antichrestomatia" is when we are talking not only about the authors, but also about us, interpreters, and about the role of the viewer in the process of implementing works of contemporary art. And this is when in 69 essays on artists, sculptors, architects and photographers foreign and domestic masters recognized by geniuses and young authors are not represented by regions or periods, but in a single stream of such exciting international artistic life of the XX - early XXI centuries