A New Dictionary of Art
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246 pages.
"Curse you Robert Good! If only you had published your book when I first started Art School! How much more illuminated my traversing of the path into territory unknown could have been, had I been enlightened by the collected perceptions, definitions and opinions collated in A New Dictionary of Art..."
Natalie Parsley, artist and blogger at Spanner in the Workz
A New Dictionary of Art offers a fresh approach to the problem of 'What is Art?'
3,000 definitions of 'art' compiled from the internet and edited for accuracy and completeness to the point of absurdity.
A streetwise cacophony of creativity.
“... a mesmerising accumulation ... a glorious monument to undefinability.... Its captivating kaleidoscope of disparate opinions shows enormity of the task with which humanity has been struggling for centuries. This dictionary is spellbinding in both its madness and profoundness.”
Egidija Čiricaitė, curator and researcher
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“Quite possibly the most ridiculously brilliant and wonderfully unnecessary book ever - gloriously essential”
Les Bicknell, artist and lecturer
Egidija Čiricaitė, curator and researcher
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“Quite possibly the most ridiculously brilliant and wonderfully unnecessary book ever - gloriously essential”
Les Bicknell, artist and lecturer
If you find contemporary art a slightly scary prospect, John Clark explains why A New Dictionary of Art is for you....
“Definitions are supposed to be, well, they’re supposed to be definitive, but that idea is gloriously overturned here, again and again. On one level this dictionary fails as no concrete definition can be found. However, this failure is, paradoxically, its success”
Bryan Eccleshall, Open College of the Arts
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“In haste, but had to email you. It's brilliant. I've been reading it, my wife has been reading it, my daughter has been reading it .... and I think the neighbours want a look too.”
D J Roberts, artist
“I can't wait to share this ... great fun wrapped up in a serious question”
Marylouise Kidd, craftsperson
“Killingly good – both splendid and splendidly bonkers”
Professor Derek Matravers, philosopher
“I've stopped reading it on the train as it makes me giggle too much!”
Margaret Ramsay, textile artist
“Powerfully provocative – one of the most useful things I’ve read in a while”
John Clark, painter
“It made me guffaw* on the park and ride bus.
*a kind of spontaneous growly noise I haven't heard for ages”
Jane Waterhouse
Bryan Eccleshall, Open College of the Arts
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“In haste, but had to email you. It's brilliant. I've been reading it, my wife has been reading it, my daughter has been reading it .... and I think the neighbours want a look too.”
D J Roberts, artist
“I can't wait to share this ... great fun wrapped up in a serious question”
Marylouise Kidd, craftsperson
“Killingly good – both splendid and splendidly bonkers”
Professor Derek Matravers, philosopher
“I've stopped reading it on the train as it makes me giggle too much!”
Margaret Ramsay, textile artist
“Powerfully provocative – one of the most useful things I’ve read in a while”
John Clark, painter
“It made me guffaw* on the park and ride bus.
*a kind of spontaneous growly noise I haven't heard for ages”
Jane Waterhouse