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How photography became contemporary art : inside an artistic revolution from Pop to the digital age / Andy Grundberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grundberg, Andy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Modern--20th century.
- Art, Modern.
- Photography, Artistic--History--20th century.
- Photography, Artistic.
- Photography, Artistic--20th century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 286 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "When Andy Grundberg landed in New York in the early 1970s as a budding writer, photography was at the margins of the contemporary art world. By 1991, when he left his post as critic for the New York Times, photography was at the vital center of artistic debate. Grundberg writes eloquently and authoritatively about photography's 'boom years,' chronicling the medium's increasing role within the most important art movements of the time, from Earth Art and Conceptual Art to performance and video. He also traces photography's embrace by museums and galleries, as well as its politicization in the culture wars of the 80s and 90s. Grundberg reflects on the landmark exhibitions that defined the moment and his encounters with the work of leading photographers--many of whom he knew personally--including Gordon Matta-Clark, Cindy Sherman, and Robert Mapplethorpe. He navigates crucial themes such as photography's relationship to theory as well as feminism and artists of color. Part memoir and part history, this perspective by one of the period's leading critics ultimately tells a larger story about the crucial decades of the 70s and 80s through the medium of photography"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Prelude, 1962
- Arrival
- Down to Earth
- Getting the Concept
- Performers, Bodies, Cameras
- Boom Years
- Crossing Over
- Video, the Other Newcomer
- Theory
- Image World Meets the Art World
- Essentials for the Eighties
- Inventions of Pure Imagination
- Expanded Terrain
- Culture Wars
- Moving On
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on October 30, 2021).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780300259896
- 0300259891
- OCLC:
- 1236400539
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