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American art since 1945 /

By: Series: World of artPublication details: London : Thames & Hudson, ©2003.Description: 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0500203687
  • 9780500203682
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • N6512 .J68 2003
Contents:
The private gesture in public: art of the New York school -- Expanded gestures: painting of the 1950s -- Expanded gestures: painting of the 1950s -- The media public sphere: pop and beyond -- Objects, general and specific: assemblage, minimalism, fluxus -- Art as information: systems, sites, media -- The artist's properties: from conceptual art to identity politics -- Commodity lifestyles: from appropriation to the posthuman.
Review: "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 analyzes the often contradictory formal, ideological and political conditions during this period that 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 also brought about a mechanization of the creative art. 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 artist and practices."--Jacket.
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Book Book Whitecliffe Library General Shelves General N 6512 JOS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0005757

Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-249) and index.

The private gesture in public: art of the New York school -- Expanded gestures: painting of the 1950s -- Expanded gestures: painting of the 1950s -- The media public sphere: pop and beyond -- Objects, general and specific: assemblage, minimalism, fluxus -- Art as information: systems, sites, media -- The artist's properties: from conceptual art to identity politics -- Commodity lifestyles: from appropriation to the posthuman.

"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 analyzes the often contradictory formal, ideological and political conditions during this period that 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 also brought about a mechanization of the creative art. 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 artist and practices."--Jacket.

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