Beauty in Some Recent Art by Michael Bracewell and Charles Asprey

The term ‘beauty’ has been all but expunged from recent art criticism. And yet beauty remains a quality that many artists over the last 50 years have regarded as vital to their work, in both form and subject matter

This book comprises a timely and controversial assertion of beauty as vital to the energy of contemporary art, from Gilbert & George as supreme aesthetes to contemporary artists as varied in their practice as Isa Genzken, Kai Althoff, Lucy McKenzie, Lukas Duwenhögger, Berkeley Hendricks and Wolfgang Tillmans, to whom are added Lana del Rey and Andy Warhol

Lavishly illustrated with 80 plates and selected discursive captions

Beautiful book specification featuring Japanese Takeo papers