Art Since 1960 (World of Art) - Softcover

Archer, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500202982 ISBN 13: 9780500202982

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 1997

Synopsis

By the mid-sixties in America, Pop Art was establishing an approach to the making of art that represented a significant shift from the prevailing orthodoxy. Alongside Pop, Minimalism investigated other possible forms and meanings of art, an investigation that was continued and developed during the later sixties and early seventies in a wide range of works from Conceptualism, Performance, and other movements. Throughout Europe, too, these years saw a variety of work that questioned assumptions about art, a process that has continued up to the present day.This exciting new survey looks at the extraordinary diversity of work produced since the early sixties. As the author ably demonstrates, contemporary events, social issues, feminism, and the articulation of Postmodernism form not only a backdrop to this art but also a stimulus to it and a resource for its form and content. Intelligently argued and profusely illustrated, here is everything one needs to know about developments, facts, issues, strategies, and responses in art for the past thirty-five years.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Archer teaches at Goldsmiths' College and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London.

Review:

Enhanced with 180 illustrations (74 of them in full color), Michael Archer's Art Since 1960 is an intelligently argued survey exploring the perennial question -- what is art's relationship to everyday life. Art Since 1960 links Pop, Minimal, Conceptual, Land, Performance, Body, and Installation art and the myriad developments in the work of Warhol, Beuys, Bourgeois and the many other artists whose works are discussed and illustrated. With a timeline that shows movements, key figures and important world events at a glance, and a full bibliography, Art Since 1960 provides a unique and indispensable overview and source of information on the evolution of art over the past four decades. Art Since 1960 is an excellent acquisition choice for any personal, academic or public library art history reference collection. -- Midwest Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0500202982
• ISBN 13: 9780500202982
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224