Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945

Name: Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945
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ISBN: 9781405135429

ISBN-10: 1405135425

ISBN-13: 9781405135429

Edition: 2006

Authors: Amelia Jones, Dana Arnold

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This text features a grand survey of the historical, social, and aesthetic issues relevant to the development of contemporary art since 1945.

Book details

List price: $73.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/3/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 656
Size: 6.80" wide x 9.72" long x 1.32" tall
Weight: 2.992
Language: English



List of Figures


Notes on Contributors


Series Editor's Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction



Writing Contemporary Art into History, a Paradox?




Decades


1945-60



"America" and its Discontents: Art and Politics 1945-60



1960-70



The 1960s: A Decade Out-of-Bounds



1970-80



"I'm sort of sliding around in place ... ummm ...": Art in the 1970s



1980-90



Pictures and Positions in the 1980s



1990-2005



1990-2005: In the Clutches of Time




Aesthetics


Formalism



Form and Formless



Art as Idea



Re-Thinking the "Duchamp Effect"



Beauty



Regarding Beauty




Politics


Avant-Garde



Avant-Garde: A Historiography of a Critical Concept



Activism



Facture for Change: US Activist Art since 1950



Culture Wars



"The Senators Were Revolted": Homophobia and the Culture Wars



Art and Its Public(s)



Crowds and Connoisseurs: Art and the Public Sphere in America




Identity/Subjectivity


The Artist



The Writerly Artist: Beautiful, Boring, and Blue



Diaspora



Diaspora: Multiple Practices, Multiple Worldviews



Feminism



Power and Pleasure: Feminist Art Practice and Theory in the United States and Britain



Queer



Queer Wallpaper



Race/Ethnicity



Implications of Blackness in Contemporary Art



Embodiment



The Paradoxical Bodies of Contemporary Art




Methods/Theories


Marxism



A Shadow of Marx



Poststructuralism



Poststructuralism and Contemporary Art, Past, Present, Future ...



Postcolonial Theory



"Fragments of Collapsing Space": Postcolonial Theory and Contemporary Art



Visual Culture



Visual Culture Studies: Questions of History, Theory, and Practice




Technology


Mass Culture, High/Low



"That's All Folks": Contemporary Art and Popular Culture



Photography/Index



Image + Text: Reconsidering Photography in Contemporary Art



Spectacle/Appropriation



Imagine There's No Image (It's Easy If You Try): Appropriation in the Age of Digital Reproduction



Digital Media



"Life-like": Historicizing Process and Responsiveness in Digital Art



Index