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Art Since 1980 Charting the Contemporary

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ISBN-10: 0205935567

ISBN-13: 9780205935567

Edition: 2014

Authors: Peter Kalb

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Examines contemporary art from its roots to the present day Art Since 1980: Charting the Contemporary presents a chronological survey from the late 20th century into the early 21st century. This title is built around short discussions on individual artists. Author Peter Kalb maintains a balance between a social history of institutions and contexts, and attention to individual aesthetic choices. Works cited come from these fields: painting, photography, and sculpture, plus installation, performance, and video art. MySearchLab is a part of the Kalb program. Research and writing tools, including access to academic journals, help students explore contemporary art in even greater depth. To…    
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Book details

List price: $119.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 9/16/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 8.70" wide x 11.40" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English

In this section:
Brief Table of Contents
Detailed Table of Contents
Brief Table Of Contents:
Introduction
Discovering the Contemporary
Taking Pictures: Appropriation and Its Consequences
Back to the Easel: Neo-Expressionism and the Return of Painting
Into the Streets
Commodities and Consumerism
Memory and History
Culture, Body, Self
Eastward Expansion: Contemporary Art in Russia and China
Engaging the Global Present
New Metaphors and New Narratives
The Art of Contemporary Experience
Detailed Table Of Contents:
Introduction
The Beginnings of Contemporaneity and the Object of Its Critique
Clement Greenberg: Objects of Concern
Beginning the Contemporary
Exhibitions and the Art Market
Narrative and Methods
Discovering the Contemporary
New Movements and the New Metaphors
Institutional Critique
African-American Critiques
Feminist Statements
Taking Pictures: Appropriation and Its Consequences
Power on Display
Identity and the Gaze
Spaces of Action
Back to the Easel: Neo-Expressionism and the Return of Painting
"A New Spirit in Painting"
The United States
Italy
Germany
Epilogue, Addenda, Errata
Into the Streets
The East Village and the Alternative Scene
Art in the Community
From Marked Territory to the Mass Media
Commodities and Consumerism
Market Forces
Signs and Abstractions
Commodity and Form in Europe
The Internationalism of Commodity Art
Memory and History
Memorializing War
African-American Histories
Art Histories and Civil Wars
Culture, Body, Self
Body as Form and Content
Changing Strategies: Body as Social Medium
Too Close: Personal Lives and Artistic Practices
Embodying Abstraction
Beyond the "I"
Eastward Expansion: Contemporary Art in Russia and China
Russia
China
Engaging the Global Present
Cuban Experiments
Mapping the Global Present
Youth Culture as a Measure of Global Change?
Imaging the Global Economy
Nodes on the Global Network: Israel and Palestine
New Metaphors and New Narratives
Relearning to Paint
Space and Sculpture
The Power of Fiction
Narrativity 2.0
The Art of Contemporary Experience
The Experience of Experience
Experience Observed
Mass Media, Personal Experience, and Politics