| Title | : | Contemporary Art, The Med: Studies in World Art, Book 23 (Unabridged) |
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| Author | : | Edward Lucie-Smith |
| Release | : | 2018-02-02 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Nonfiction |
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| 1 | Contemporary Art, The Med: Studies in Wo | Edward Lucie-Smith |
| There are three things that we have to take into account when attempting to assess the impact of the contemporary sensibility in art on the culture of the various countries bordering the Mediterranean. First, the way in which each of these territories responds to the idea of the contemporary is bound up with its own cultural history. Every Mediterranean coastline possesses a hinterland, and this hinterland exercises an enormous influence on what is seen on the coast itself. |
