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The changing boundaries and nature of the modern art world : the art object and the object of art /

By: Series: Aesthetics and contemporary artPublisher: London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 233 pages) : illustrationsISBN:
  • 9781350154735
  • 9781350154766
  • 1350154768
  • 9781350154759
  • 135015475X
  • 1350154741
  • 9781350154742
Uniform titles:
  • Essays. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • N6490 .K286 2021
Online resources:
Partial contents:
Real Dead -- Al Held -- In Another Light -- The Reality of Abstraction -- The Uncomfortable Armchair: Abstraction and Decoration -- Wandering Color: Arbitrariness, Disjunction, and Decoration in American Art of the Sixties -- “The Rutgers Group: Garden State Avant-Garde”-- “Expressing the Abstract”-- “Gees Bend Modern”-- Excerpts from Imagining the Present: Context, Content and the Role of the Critic -- “Ab-Ex Confidential: The Way They Were” -- “Martín Ramírez: Narratives of Displacement and Memory” --“The Guardians of the Avant-Garde”-- “Robert Morris: The Order of Disorder”-- “West of Eden”-- “Harmony & Discord”-- “The Four Corners of Painting”-- “Talk/Show: Language and the Resistant Artwork”-- “Stop, Look and Listen! Mel Bochner Strong Language”. “Through Color”--“Hold Still: Looking at Photo-Realism” -- “The Here and Then”. “Art Between Form and Anti-Form” --“Frames and Personas” -- “Inside Outsider” - “The Unusual Suspects: A View of Abstraction”.
Summary: "Concentrating on the shifting boundaries and definition of art, Richard Kalina offers a panoramic view of the contemporary art scene over the last 30 years. His focus is on the ongoing development of concepts, the transformation of art worlds and the social matrices in which they are created. Discussing painting in general and abstract painting in particular, his survey takes in photorealism, sculpture and art forms found outside of the modernist tradition. Kalina's group of artists includes Mel Bochner, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, Franz West, Alma Thomas and Richard Tuttle who, in their ongoing projects, explicitly or implicitly questioned the aesthetic assumptions of their times. Merging an examination of animating philosophies and context - political, social, and personal - with a sharply focused look at the works of art themselves, Kalina brings us closer to understanding the social matrices in which art is embedded and responds to bigger questions about the object nature of the work of art in today's world"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Real Dead -- Al Held -- In Another Light -- The Reality of Abstraction -- The Uncomfortable Armchair: Abstraction and Decoration -- Wandering Color: Arbitrariness, Disjunction, and Decoration in American Art of the Sixties -- “The Rutgers Group: Garden State Avant-Garde”-- “Expressing the Abstract”-- “Gees Bend Modern”-- Excerpts from Imagining the Present: Context, Content and the Role of the Critic -- “Ab-Ex Confidential: The Way They Were” -- “Martín Ramírez: Narratives of Displacement and Memory” --“The Guardians of the Avant-Garde”-- “Robert Morris: The Order of Disorder”-- “West of Eden”-- “Harmony & Discord”-- “The Four Corners of Painting”-- “Talk/Show: Language and the Resistant Artwork”-- “Stop, Look and Listen! Mel Bochner Strong Language”. “Through Color”--“Hold Still: Looking at Photo-Realism” -- “The Here and Then”. “Art Between Form and Anti-Form” --“Frames and Personas” -- “Inside Outsider” - “The Unusual Suspects: A View of Abstraction”.

"Concentrating on the shifting boundaries and definition of art, Richard Kalina offers a panoramic view of the contemporary art scene over the last 30 years. His focus is on the ongoing development of concepts, the transformation of art worlds and the social matrices in which they are created. Discussing painting in general and abstract painting in particular, his survey takes in photorealism, sculpture and art forms found outside of the modernist tradition. Kalina's group of artists includes Mel Bochner, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, Franz West, Alma Thomas and Richard Tuttle who, in their ongoing projects, explicitly or implicitly questioned the aesthetic assumptions of their times. Merging an examination of animating philosophies and context - political, social, and personal - with a sharply focused look at the works of art themselves, Kalina brings us closer to understanding the social matrices in which art is embedded and responds to bigger questions about the object nature of the work of art in today's world"-- Provided by publisher.

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