Painting in the 1980s : reimagining the medium / Rosemary Cohane Erpf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erpf, Rosemary Cohane, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting, Modern--20th century--History.

Painting, Modern.

Nineteen eighties--Art.

Nineteen eighties.

Genre:

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

x, 317 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Chicago, IL : Intellect Books, 2022.

Summary:

"This book is the first to explore major painters of the 1980s in depth and to analyze the factors that shaped art from the period. Accessible to both novice and specialist, Painting in the 1980s details where and how painting embodied the zeitgeist in original fusions of style and content. Gallerists, curators, and art historians assigned labels such as New Image Painting, Neo-Expressionism, Italian Transavanguardia, Neo-Geo, and the blanket designation of Postmodernism to categorize painting in this era, yet these classifications denote a false sense of homogeneity. This book's narrative aims to excavate and analyze the art and ideas that shaped each artist's style and their diverse and often ambiguous content" -- back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. New Image Painting: A Prelude to the 1980s

2. Painting as Puzzle: The Downtown New York Art World of the 1980s

3. Abstraction: Ideas about the Thing and the Thing Itself

4. Addressing Germany's Past: Painting in a Divided Nation

5. A Sense of Place: The Italian Transavanguardia

6. Worthy Misfits: Defying Categorization.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-290) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781789385571

1789385571

OCLC:

1314287885