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Bold and engaging predictions of which artists and artworks from the past two decades will endure through their power to question, provoke, and inspire Just as Picasso’s Guernica or Gericault’s Raft of the Medusa survive as powerful cultural documents of their time, there will be works from our own era that will endure for generations to come. Kelly Grovier curates a compelling list of one hundred paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations, performances, and video pieces that have made the greatest impact from 1989 to the present. The global cast includes Marina Abramović , Matthew Barney, Christian Boltanski, Louise Bourgeois, Maurizio Cattelan, Marlene Dumas, Olafur Eliasson, Andreas Gursky, Cristina Iglesias, On Kawara, Jeff Koons, Ernesto Neto, Gerhard Richter, Pipilotti Rist, Kara Walker, and Ai Weiwei.
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www.kellygrovier.com
Kelly Grovier's book on contemporary art, 100 WORKS OF ART THAT WILL DEFINE OUR AGE, has been described as "a major addition to the literature of art criticism and philosophy" (Library Journal) and "the book that generated most debate this year" (The Daily Telegraph) . It was named one of the best books of the year by The Daily Telegraph newspaper, The Huffington Post, The Independent newspaper, Metro newspaper, and Time Out magazine.
His history of London's notorious Newgate Prison, THE GAOL, was selected as "Book of the Week" by BBC Radio 4 and serialized on-air over five days.
He is the author of three collections of poetry, including THE LANTERN CAGE, and has been described by reviewers as "a poet of both truth and beauty" (The TLS) and "a kind of William Blake for the twenty-first century" (Planet magazine) .
Kelly was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was educated at UCLA and Oxford University, where he earned his doctorate as a Marshall Scholar. He is a regular contributor on art to The Times Literary Supplement and co-founder of the scholarly journal European Romantic Review. He currently lives in Ireland.
