American art since 1945
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American art since 1945
（World of art）
Thames & Hudson, 2003
Available at 9 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-249) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
No other introductory book presents the diversity and complexity of postwar American art from Abstract Expressionism to the present as clearly and succinctly as this groundbreaking survey.
David Joselit traces and analyses the often contradictory formal, ideological and political conditions during this period which made American art predominant throughout the world. Social and cultural transformations rooted in mass-media technologies - photography, television, video and the Internet - elevated consumer commodities to the status of legitimate art subjects, as in Pop and Installation art, and brought about a mechanization of the creative act. Artists also increasingly engaged with issues of gender, race, identity and power.
Canonical movements and figures are discussed - Pollock, Rothko, Krasner, Oldenburg, Johns, Warhol, Paik, Ruscha, Sherman, Holzer, Koons and Barney - in juxtaposition with lesser known contemporary artists and practices.
Table of Contents
1. The Private Gesture in Public: Art of the New York School - 2. Expanded Gestures: Painting of the 1950s - 3. The Media Public Sphere: Pop and Beyond - 4. Objects, General and Specific: Assemblage, Minimalism, Fluxus - 5. Art as Information: Systems, Sites and Media - 6. The Artist's Properties: From Conceptual Art to Identity Politics - 7. Commodity Lifestyles: From Appropriation to the Posthuman
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