Art after appropriation : essays on art in the 1990s / John C. Welchman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Welchman, John C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Modern--20th century.

Art, Modern.

Appropriation (Art).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : G+B Arts International, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Beginning with the first comprehensive account of the discourse of appropriation that dominated the art world in the late 1970s and 1980s, Art After Appropriation suggests a matrix of inflections and refusals around the culture of taking or citation, each chapter loosely correlated with one year of the decade between 1989 and 1999. The opening chapters show how the Second World culture of the USSR gave rise to a new visibility for photography during the dissolution of the Soviet Union around 1989. Welchman examines how genres of ethnography, documentary and travel are crossed with fic

Contents:

Cover; Art After Appropriation; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; IntroductionGlobal Nets: Appropriation and Postmodernity; Chapter 1 Photographies, Counter-revolution and Second Worlds: Allegories by Design, 1989; Chapter 2 Photographies, Counter-revolution and Second Worlds: Releases and Counter-appropriations, 1989; Chapter 3 New Bodies: The Medical Venus and the Techno-grotesque, 1993-1994; Chapter 4 Faces, Boxes and The Moves: On Travelling Video Cultures, 1993; Chapter 5 Public Art and the Spectacle of Money: On Art Rebate/ Arte Reembolso, 1993

Chapter 6 'Peeping Over the Wall': Narcissism in the 1990s, 1995Chapter 7 Parametrology: From the White Cube to the Rainbow Net, 1996; Chapter 8 Culture/Cuts: Post-appropriation in the Work of Cody Hyun Choi, 1998; Chapter 9 Some Horizons of Medialisation: The Rainbow Net, 1999; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-80136-7

1-136-80137-5

1-283-96526-7

0-203-82744-9

9057010437 (pbk.)

9789057010439 (pbk.)

9780203827444

OCLC:

826487017