Conceptual revolutions in twentieth-century art / David W. Galenson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Galenson, David W., author.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Modern--20th century.

Art, Modern.

Art and society--History--20th century.

Art and society.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 443 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From Picasso's Cubism and Duchamp's readymades to Warhol's silkscreens and Smithson's earthworks, the art of the twentieth century broke completely with earlier artistic traditions. A basic change in the market for advanced art produced a heightened demand for innovation, and young conceptual innovators - from Picasso and Duchamp to Rauschenberg and Warhol to Cindy Sherman and Damien Hirst - responded not only by creating dozens of new forms of art, but also by behaving in ways that would have been incomprehensible to their predecessors. Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art presents the first systematic analysis of the reasons for this discontinuity. David W. Galenson, whose earlier research has changed our understanding of creativity, combines social scientific methods with qualitative analysis to produce a fundamentally new interpretation of modern art that will give readers a far deeper appreciation of the art of the past century, and of today, than is available elsewhere.

Contents:

Introduction: and now for something completely different

The back story of twentieth-century art

The greatest artists of the twentieth century

The most important works of art of the twentieth century

The greatest artistic breakthroughs of the twentieth century

The greatest women artists of the twentieth century

Creating new genres : conceptual artists at work and play in the twentieth century

And now for something completely different : the versatility of conceptual innovators

You cannot be serious : the conceptual innovator as trickster

Painting by proxy : the conceptual artist as manufacturer

Co-authoring advanced art

Language in visual art

Portraits of the artist : personal visual art in the twentieth century

The rise and (partial) fall of abstract painting in the twentieth century

The globalization of advanced art in the twentieth century

Artists and the market : from Leonardo and Titian to Warhol and Hirst

The state of advanced art : the late twentieth century and beyond.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-421) and index.

ISBN:

0-511-69979-4

1-107-18826-1

0-511-80420-2

0-511-63269-X

0-511-65184-8

0-511-63148-0

0-511-63389-0

OCLC:

609845728