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 Contemporary is a visual arts magazine, published every month. Its website claims that it is the world's most widely distributed arts magazine, with an estimated international readership of around 75,000. Contemporary is based in Bermondsey, south-east London.
The magazine is published by Brian Mūller. The Senior Editor is Michele Robecchi.
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The magazine contains news, features, interviews and reviews focused on contemporary visual art. Damien Hirst, Maurizio Cattelan, Terry Riley, Matthew Barney and Tracey Emin have all featured in the magazine. Contemporary's marketing strategy includes the distribution of specially commissioned limited edition prints by well-known artists free to its subscribers.
Visual Arts
The visual arts are art forms that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature, such as painting, photography, printmaking, and filmmaking. Those that involve three-dimensional objects, such as sculpture and architecture, are called plastic arts. Many artistic disciplines (performing arts, language arts, and culinary arts) involve aspects of the visual arts as well as other types, so these definitions are not strict.
The current usage of the term "visual arts" includes fine arts as well as crafts, but this was not always the case. Before the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain and elsewhere at the turn of the 20th century, "visual artist" referred to a person working in the fine arts (such as painting, sculpture, or printmaking) and not the handicraft, craft, or applied art disciplines. The distinction was emphasized by artists of the Arts and Crafts movement who valued vernacular art forms as much as high forms. The movement contrasted with modernists who sought to withhold the high arts from the masses by keeping them esoteric. Art schools made a distinction between the fine arts and the crafts in such a way that a craftsperson could not be considered a practitioner of art.
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