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A companion to contemporary art since 1945 / edited by Amelia Jones.
Fine Arts Library N6490 .C65615 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell companions to art history
- Blackwell companions in art history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Modern--20th century--History.
- Art, Modern.
- History.
- Art, Modern--21st century--History.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 628 pages: illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
- Summary:
- This ambitious reference work charts the major works and movements, the most important theoretical developments, and the historical, social, political, and aesthetic issues in contemporary art since 1945, primarily in the Euro-American context.
- Dual chronological and thematic coverage of the major issues enables the reader to engage with multiple perspectives on current art movements and conceptual issues, and to consider future directions in the field. Topics covered include culture wars, public space, diaspora, new technologies, the artist, identity politics, the body, poststructuralism, and visual culture. The Companion also covers debates central to contemporary art practice and theory such as those addressing formalism, the avant-garde, and the society of the spectacle.
- Bringing together leading cultural critics and scholars from art history and allied fields to comment on the crucial historical and theoretical issues and debates that have conditioned our understanding of the contemporary visual arts, this volume offers new approaches toward the analysis of the visual arts in general. A stellar reference work, it is written for students and scholars of contemporary visual culture, art history, and visual theory, as well as the general reader interested in the development of this interdisciplinary field.
- Contents:
- 1 Writing Contemporary Art into History, a Paradox? / Amelia Jones 3
- Part II Decades 17
- 1945-60
- 2 "America" and its Discontents: Art and Politics 1945-60 / Gavin Butt 19
- 1960-70
- 3 The 1960s: A Decade Out-of-Bounds / Anna Dezeuze 38
- 1970-80
- 4 "I'm sort of sliding around in place ... ummm ...": Art in the 1970s / Sam Gathercole 60
- 1980-90
- 5 Pictures and Positions in the 1980s / Howard Singerman 83
- 1990-2005
- 6 1990-2005: In the Clutches of Time / Henry M. Sayre 107
- Part III Aesthetics 125
- Formalism
- 7 Form and Formless / Caroline A. Jones 127
- Art as Idea
- 8 Re-Thinking the "Duchamp Effect" / David Hopkins 145
- Beauty
- 9 Regarding Beauty / Margaret Morgan 164
- Part IV Politics 189
- Avant-Garde
- 10 Avant-Garde: A Historiography of a Critical Concept / Johanne Lamoureux 191
- Activism
- 11 Facture for Change: US Activist Art since 1950 / Jennifer Gonzalez, Adrienne Posner 212
- Culture Wars
- 12 "The Senators Were Revolted": Homophobia and the Culture Wars / Jonathan D. Katz 231
- Art and Its Public(s)
- 13 Crowds and Connoisseurs: Art and the Public Sphere in America / Grant Kester 249
- Part V Identity/Subjectivity 269
- The Artist
- 14 The Writerly Artist: Beautiful, Boring, and Blue / Carol Mavor 271
- Diaspora
- 15 Diaspora: Multiple Practices, Multiple Worldviews / Steven Nelson 296
- Feminism
- 16 Power and Pleasure: Feminist Art Practice and Theory in the United States and Britain / Laura Meyer 317
- Queer
- 17 Queer Wallpaper / Jennifer Doyle 343
- Race/Ethnicity
- 18 Implications of Blackness in Contemporary Art / Pauline de Souza 356
- Embodiment
- 19 The Paradoxical Bodies of Contemporary Art / Christine Ross 378
- Part VI Methods/Theories 401
- Marxism
- 20 A Shadow of Marx / Neil Cummings, Marysia Lewandowska 403
- Poststructuralism
- 21 Poststructuralism and Contemporary Art, Past, Present, Future ... / Sarah Wilson 424
- Postcolonial Theory
- 22 "Fragments of Collapsing Space": Postcolonial Theory and Contemporary Art / Mark Crinson 450
- Visual Culture
- 23 Visual Culture Studies: Questions of History, Theory, and Practice / Marquard Smith 470
- Part VII Technology 491
- Mass Culture, High/Low
- 24 "That's All Folks": Contemporary Art and Popular Culture / Nick Mirzoeff 493
- Photography/Index
- 25 Image + Text: Reconsidering Photography in Contemporary Art / Liz Kotz 512
- Spectacle/Appropriation
- 26 Imagine There's No Image (It's Easy If You Try): Appropriation in the Age of Digital Reproduction / Dore Bowen 534
- Digital Media
- 27 "Life-like": Historicizing Process and Responsiveness in Digital Art / Maria Fernandez 557.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1405107944
- 1405135425
- OCLC:
- 62381441
- Publisher Number:
- 9781405107945
- 9781405135429
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