After modern art 1945-2000
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After modern art 1945-2000
(Oxford history of art)
Oxford University Press, 2000
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: pbk ISBN 9780192842343
Description
Contemporary art can be baffling and beautiful, provocative and disturbing. This pioneering book presents a new look at the controversial period between 1945 and 2000, when art and its traditional forms were called into question. It focuses on the relationship between American and European art, and challenges previously held views about the origins of some of the most innovative ideas in art of this time.
Major artists such as Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns, Yves Klein, Andy Warhol, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, and Damien Hirst are all discussed, as is the art world of the last fifty years. Important trends are also covered including Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptualism, Postmodernism, and the art of the nineties.
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 THE POLITICS OF MODERNISM: ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM AND THE EUROPEAN INFORMEL
- 2 DUCHAMP'S LEGACY: THE RAUSCHENBERG-JOHNS AXIS
- 3 THE ARTIST IN CRISIS: FROM BACON TO BEUYS
- 4 BLURRING BOUNDARIES: POP ART, FLUXUS AND THEIR EFFECTS
- 5 MODERNISM IN RETREAT: MINIMALIST AESTHETICS AND BEYOND
- 6 THE DEATH OF THE OBJECT: THE MOVE TO CONCEPTUALISM
- 7 POSTMODERNISM: THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THE 1980S
- 8 INTO THE 1990S
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY
- TIMELINE
- INDEX
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: hbk ISBN 9780192842817
Description
Modern and contemporary art can be both baffling and beautiful, it can also be innovative, political, and disturbing. Closely informed by critical approaches, this book sets out to provide a concise interpretation of this period. Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, and Damien Hirst are among many artists discussed, within the political and cultural worlds they inhabited. The theoretical and issue-based debates that have driven the art of this period art along are followed through the key movements of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptualism, Postmodernism. This book is intended for an introduction to art in the last half of the 20th Century for students and the general reader interested in modern and contemporary art.
Table of Contents
- 1 The Politics of Modernism: Abstract Expressionism and the European Informel
- 2 Duchamp's Legacy: The Rauschenberg-Johns Axis
- 3 The Artist in Crisis: From Bacon to Beuys
- 4 Blurring Boundaries: Pop Art, Fluxus and their Effects
- 5 Modernism in Retreat: Minimalist Aesthetics and Beyond
- 6 The Death of the Object: The Move to Conceptualism
- 7 Postmodernism: Theory and Practice in the 1980s
- 8 Into the 1990s.
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