Beauty: In Some Recent Art

Citing Lana Del Rey and Andy Warhol, Isa Genzken and Barkley Hendricks, this illustrated treatise argues for beauty as a vital force of contemporary art

The term "beauty" has been all but expunged from recent art criticism. And yet it remains a quality that many artists over the last 50 years have regarded as vital to their work, in both form and subject matter. Michael Bracewell and Charles Asprey argue for a return of aesthetics to the science of feelings: in other words, a concept of bea...