Modern art in the common culture
Crow, Thomas E.
1948-
creator
text
bibliography
ctu
New Haven, CT
Yale University Press
1996
monographic
eng
viii, 274 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Must avant-garde art hold itself apart from the values and beliefs widely held in the common culture? Must advanced artists always be the symbolic adversaries of the ordinary citizen? These questions have dominated, even paralyzed the modern art world, particularly in recent years when perceived elitism and imposed canons of taste have come under fire from all sides. In this stimulating book, a prominent art historian shows that the links between advanced art and modern mass culture have always been robust, indeed necessary to both. Thomas Crow focuses on the continual interdependence between the two phenomena, providing examples that range from Paris in the mid-nineteenth century to the latest revivals of Conceptual art in the 1990s.
1. Modernism and Mass Culture in the Visual Arts -- 2. Fashioning the New York School -- 3. Saturday Disasters: Trace and Reference in Early Warhol -- 4. The Return of Hank Herron: Simulated Abstraction and the Service Economy of Art -- 5. Art Criticism in the Age of Incommensurate Values: On the Thirtieth Anniversary of Artforum -- 6. Handmade Photographs and Homeless Representation -- 7. Ross Bleckner, or the Conditions of Painting's Reincarnation -- 8. Site-Specific Art: The Strong and the Weak -- 9. Profane Illuminations: The Social History of Jeff Wall -- 10. The Simple Life: Pastoralism and the Persistence of Genre in Recent Art -- 11. Unwritten Histories of Conceptual Art: Against Visual Culture.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-262) and index.
Pollock, Jackson
1912-1956
Warhol, Andy
1928-1987
Herron, Hank
Richter, Gerhard
1932-
Bleckner, Ross
1949-
Matta-Clark, Gordon
1943-1978
Serra, Richard
1939-
Wall, Jeff
1946-
Art, Modern
19th century
Art, Modern
20th century
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DLC
950419
20170321090940.0
eng