Art since 1940 : strategies of being

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Art since 1940 : strategies of being

Jonathan Fineberg

Prentice Hall, c2011

3rd ed

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 532-538) and index

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Description

This comprehensive and authoritative book illustrates art from the 1940's and stresses the individuality of the artists in relation to their political, social, and cultural contexts. KEY TOPICS: The book focuses on the meaning of the major works and innovations. It features nearly 600 illustrations (approximately half in color) representing art since 1940, both in Europe and America. It explores the full range of periods, artists, and movements: New York in the Forties; Calder, Hofmann, Gorky, Motherwell, De Kooning; Existentialism (Pollock, Newman, Rothko, David Smith); The New European Masters of the Late Forties (Dubuffet, Giacometti, Bacon), plus so much more. MARKET: For anyone interested in Postwar Art.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Third Edition Acknowledgments Preface 1 Introduction Approaching Art as a Mode of Thought Modernism The Concept of the Avant-Garde Modernism's Radical Individuality and Self-Critique Postmodernism An American Perspective/the Perspective of this Book 2 New York in the Forties New York Becomes the Center Surrealism Wilfredo Lam Roberto Matta Joseph Cornell American Pragmatism and Social Relevance The Depression and the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) The Availability of European Modernism The Europeans in New York The Sense of a New Movement in New York Commonalities and Differences Among the Artists of the New York School Automatism and Action in the Art of the New York School Action and Existentialism Clyfford Still Adolph Gottlieb Franz Kline Friends in and around the New York School Alternative Narratives of the Forties Jacob Lawrence Hedda Sterne Louise Bourgeois Photography in the Era of the New York School Weegee and Lisette Model Aaron Siskind and the Chicago School 3 A Dialog with Europe Alexander Calder Calder's Early Life and Themes Calder in Paris Cosmic Imagery and the Mobiles Hans Hofmann Stylistic Lessons from Europe Hofmann's Art Theory Hofmann's Painting Arshile Gorky Gorky's Life (Real and Imagined) The Development of Gorky's Style Gorky's Late Works Robert Motherwell Intellectual Affinities with the European Moderns Recurring Themes in Motherwell's Work Teaching, Writing, and Editing in Motherwell's Early Career Motherwell's Painting Willem de Kooning De Kooning's Training and Early Career The Dissolution of Anatomy into Abstraction The Anatomical Forms Dissolve into Brushstrokes De Kooning's Abstractions of the Fifties The "Women" of the Sixties and the Late Works 4 Existentialism Comes to the Fore Jackson Pollock Pollock's Early Life and Influences Pollock's Breakthrough of the Early Forties Pollock's Transition to a Pure Gestural Style The Dripped and Poured Canvases Pollock in the Fifties Barnett Newman The Revelation of Newman's Onement I The Paintings of the Late Forties Vir Heroicus Sublimis and Other Works of the Fifties The "Stations of the Cross" Mark Rothko Rothko's Formative Years Turning to Classical Myth Surrealism, Psychoanalysis, and "the Spirit of Myth" "Heroifying" the Ineffable The Murals and Other Late Work David Smith and the Sculpture of the New York School Smith's Initiation into the Art World The Aesthetic of Machines and the Unconscious The Pictograms and Hudson River Landscape An Existential Encounter with the Materials at Hand Career Success and Personal Sacrifices The Figural Presence and the Work of the Last Decade 5 The New European Masters of the Late Forties Jean Dubuffet and Postwar Paris Dubuffet's Painting of the Forties Dubuffet's Philosophical Premises A Focus on Matter in the Fifties A Grand Style of Entropy The Existentialist Figuration of Alberto Giacometti Francis Bacon 6 Some International Tendencies of the Fifties Purified Abstraction 1 An Encounter with the Physicality of the Materials in Europe A Material Reading of Action Painting in New York Greenberg's Definition of Modernism The Greenberg School Formalist Painting "New Images of Man" in Europe and America The Cobra The Figurative Revival of the Fifties Figurative Painting in the Bay Area Chicago's Existential Imagist 7 The Beat Generation "A Coney Island of the Mind" John Cage Merce Cunningham The Cage "Event" of 1952 Robert Rauschenberg The Self as a Mirror of Life Rauschenberg's Early Career The Combine Paintings The Drawings for Dante's Inferno The End of the Combines The Silkscreen Paintings Performance and the Prints of the Later Sixties Real: Junk Assemblage and Happenings Underground Film The Genesis of the Happenings The Judson Dance Theater Walk-in Paintings Claes Oldenburg The "Cold Existentialism" of the "Ray Gun" and The Street The Store Days Soft Sculpture Proposals for Monuments Realizing Monuments and the Architectural Scale Jasper Johns "Nature" Is How We Describe It Painting as a Discourse on Language An Aesthetic of "Found" Expression Emotion and Distance Incorporating Objects: What One Sees and What One Knows The Paintings of 1959 The New Emotional Tone of the Early Sixties Explorations of Linguistic Philosophy Diver of 1962 Periscope (Hart Crane) The Perceptual Complexity of Looking Dropping the Reserve 8 Asian and European Vanguards of the Later Fifties Nouveau Realisme Yves Klein's Romanticism Le Vide The "Living Brash" Seeking Immateriality Klein's Demise The Nouveaux Realistes Gutai Fluxus Joseph Beuys Revealing the Animism in Nature The Artist as Shaman Art as the Creative Life of the Mind Nam June Paik's Electronic "Nature" Yoko Ono 9 The Landscape of Signs: American Pop Art The Electronic Consciousness A Turning Point in Theory British Pop: From the Independent Group to David Hockney Key Figures of the Independent Group The Exhibitions Paolozzi and Hamilton as Artists Popular Imagery into High Art David Hockney Collaging Reality on Pop Art's Neutral Screen of Images Andy Warhol Warhol's Background Selecting Nonselectivity Eliminating the Artist's Touch A Terrifying Emptiness The Factory Scene Business Art and the "Shadows" that Linger Behind It Roy Lichtenstein James Rosenquist Chicago and Points West H.C. Westermann Peter Saul The Hairy Who West Coast Pop Funk Art Peter Voulkos The Politicized Cultural Climate of the Sixties William Wiley Ed Kienholz L.A. Pop Robert Arneson Arneson's Break with Conventional Ceramics The Toilets A Technical Breakthrough Objects of the Mid-Sixties The Self-Portraits Discovering a Political Voice Introspection Via Pollock 10 In the Nature of Materials: The Later Sixties Back to First Principles-Minimal Art Frank Stella Donald Judd Tony Smith Carl Andre Dan Flavin Robert Morris Sol Le Witt The Los Angeles Light and Space Movement Object/Concept/Illusion in Painting A Focus on Surface Handling in Painting Eva Hesse and Investigations of Materials and Process Eva Hesse The Direct Sensuality of Fiberglass and Latex Bruce Nauman and Richard Serra Bruce Nauman Richard Tuttle Richard Serra Artists Working in the Landscape Michael Heizer Walter De Maria Robert Smiths An Accidental Rubric Arte Povera, and a Persevering Rapport with Nature in Europe 11 Politics and Postmodernism The Critical Atmosphere at the End of the Sixties Language and Measure Recasting Photography Art and Nature Vito Acconci: Defining a Conceptual Oeuvre Body Art Ana Mendieta Lygia Clark Helio Oiticica Performance Art Political Comment Marcel Broodthaers Situationism The Potential for Broader Political Action Christo and Jeanne-Claude Art in the Theater of Real Events The Shift to an Architectural Scale The Logistics of the Projects Surrounded Islands Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the Nineties and Beyond Postmodernism Sigmar Polke Gerhard Richter John Baldessari Transition to the Seventies 12 Corporate Culture and its Enemies A "New" Pluralism Romare Bearden Bearden's Collages of the Sixties Identity, Corporate Culture, and Pluralism Art and Feminism A Dazzling Photorealism Everyday Places Appropriated Sites: Charles Simonds Gordon Matta-Clark's Site Critiques Alice Aycock Aycock's Work of the Eighties Cultural Complexity Media as a Medium Appropriation Cindy Sherman 13 Painting in the Seventies Philip Guston's Late Style Guston's Early Career Guston's Action Paintings of the Fifties The Re-emergence of the Figure New Expressionist Painting in Europe Joerg Immendorff's Political Analysis of Painting in the Seventies Identity on the Plane of Images Georg Baselitz and A.R. Penck Anselm Kiefer Italian Neo-Expressionism Francesco Clemente New Image Painting Elizabeth Murray The Origins of Murray's Style Pursuing the Logic of the Shaped Canvas The Internationalization of Neo-Expressionism American Neo-expressionism 14 The Eighties Complexity Settles In A Fresh Look at Abstraction An Expressionism Beyond Medium: Jonathan Borofsky Graffiti Art Keith Haring The East Village Scene of the Eighties Jean-Michel Basquiat David Wojnarowicz Eighties Installation The Peculiar Case of the Russians Ilya Kabakov Kabakov in the West The Aesthetic of Consumerism Political Appropriation 15 The Nineties Keeping it Real Return to the Body Ann Hamilton Transgressive Dislocations of the Body Matthew Barney Fashion Controversial Methods Postmodern Conceptualism Constructing the Postmodern Self Louise Bourgeois New Uses of the Camera Video Slippage: Fred Tomaselli Roxy Paine's Taxonomy Cultural Identity Kerry James Marshall The Comics Global Culture and Local Meaning China 16 A New Century, A Changed World Violated Boundaries Economies " (c)Murakami": Branding the Self Conrad Bakker-Parsing the Fictions of Real Economies Andrea Fraser: Context and Self Detached Subjectivity Identity and Shopping: Sang-ah Choi Dissolution, Dislocation, Displacement of Boundaries-An Autopsy on Identity An Alternative History 17 To Say the Things That Are One's Own Bibliography Notes Index

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