BEAUTY (DOCUMENTS OF CONTEMPORARY ART)
DAVE BEECH
Beauty, edited by Dave Beech, is one of a series documenting major themes and ideas in contemporary art. Beauty is among the most hotly contested subjects in current discussions on art and culture. After decades of disavowal, beauty's resurgence in recent art has engaged some of the most influential artists and writers. Spanning diverse positions, this anthology assembles the key texts on the cultural politics of this recent phenomenon, as well as contextualizing these debates both for and against in artistic practice and the broader history of aesthetics.
Dave Beech is a London-based British artist and writer. He is a member of the collective freee (www.freee.org.uk). A regular contributor to Art Monthly as well as periodicals such as Untitled, Mute and The First Condition, he has examined the legacies of the avant-garde in essays such as 'Art's Detractors', 'Shock vs Awe' and 'The Politics of Beauty'. He teaches at Chelsea College of Art and is the co-author of The Philistine Controversy (2002).
