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The originality of the avant-garde and other modernist myths /

By: Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1985.Description: 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0262110938
  • 9780262110938
  • 0262610469
  • 9780262610469
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Contents:
I. Modernist myths : Grids ; In the name of Picasso ; No more play ; The photographic conditions of surrealism ; This new art: To draw in space ; Photography's discursive spaces ; The originality of the Avante-garde ; Sincerely yours -- II. Toward Postmodernism : Notes on the Index: Part 1 ; Notes on the Index: Part 2 ; Reading Jackson Pollock, abstractly ; LeWitt in progress ; Richard Serra, a translation ; Sculpture in the expanded field ; Poststructuralism and the paraliterary.
Summary: "In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October, she explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has forced a change in our various understandings of twentieth-century art, beginning with the almost mythic idea of the avant-garde. Krauss uses the analytical tools of semiology, structuralism, and poststructuralism to reveal new meanings in the visual arts and to critique the way other prominent practitioners of art and literary history write about art. In two sections, "Modernist Myths" and "Toward Postmodernism," her essays range from the problem of the grid in painting and the unity of Giacometti's sculpture to the works of Jackson Pollock, Sol Lewitt, and Richard Serra, and observations about major trends in contemporary literary criticism."--MIT Press.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Modernist myths : Grids ; In the name of Picasso ; No more play ; The photographic conditions of surrealism ; This new art: To draw in space ; Photography's discursive spaces ; The originality of the Avante-garde ; Sincerely yours -- II. Toward Postmodernism : Notes on the Index: Part 1 ; Notes on the Index: Part 2 ; Reading Jackson Pollock, abstractly ; LeWitt in progress ; Richard Serra, a translation ; Sculpture in the expanded field ; Poststructuralism and the paraliterary.

"In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October, she explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has forced a change in our various understandings of twentieth-century art, beginning with the almost mythic idea of the avant-garde. Krauss uses the analytical tools of semiology, structuralism, and poststructuralism to reveal new meanings in the visual arts and to critique the way other prominent practitioners of art and literary history write about art. In two sections, "Modernist Myths" and "Toward Postmodernism," her essays range from the problem of the grid in painting and the unity of Giacometti's sculpture to the works of Jackson Pollock, Sol Lewitt, and Richard Serra, and observations about major trends in contemporary literary criticism."--MIT Press.

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