Oxford Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (Second Edition) by Ian Chilvers and John Glaves-Smith (OUP,£10.99)
WHETHER you are baffled and bemused or enthralled and entertained by modern art movements and modern artists, this is one authority that puts you squarely in the picture.
Figures such as Emin, Hirst, Perry and Ali Weiwei are tackled, and the likes of cubism, conceptual art and installation are dissected and defined to allow the ordinary art lover to make a balanced judgement of what is being created today.
An eye-opener in more ways than one.
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