The disappearance of objects : New York art and the rise of the postmodern city / Joshua Shannon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shannon, Joshua, 1972- author.

Contributor:

Yale University Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Art and society.

Art, American--New York (State)--New York--20th century.

Art, American.

Postmodernism--New York (State)--New York.

Postmodernism.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 pages) : 189 illustrations (some color), maps

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009]

Summary:

"In the years around 1960, a rapid process of deindustrialization profoundly changed New York City. At the same time, massive highway construction, urban housing renewal, and the growth of the financial sector altered the city's landscape. As the new economy took shape, manufacturing lofts, piers, and small shops were replaced by sleek high-rise housing blocks and office towers. Focusing on works by Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Donald Judd, art historian Joshua Shannon shows how New York art engaged with this transformation of the city. Shannon convincingly argues that these four artists---all living amid the changes---filled their art with old street signs, outmoded flashlights, and other discarded objects in a richly revealing effort to understand the economic and architectural transformation of their city"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Materiality in New York, 1960

A neo-dada city: Oldenburg

The disappearance of objects: Johns

Black market: Rauschenberg

A loft without labor: Judd

Into air: the late 1960s and after.

Notes:

Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on May 8, 2018).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-220) and index.

ISBN:

9780300233599

0300233590

OCLC:

609074106