Avant-Garde and After: Rethinking Art Now

Taylor, Brandon

ISBN 10: 0133600416 / ISBN 13: 9780133600414

Published by Harry N. Abrams; Prentice Hall, Inc., New York, 1995

About this Item

176 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Profusely illustrated. *** "Offering a critical perspective-rather than a traditional survey, this provocative text explores the art of the last twenty years-the latter 1970s, the 1980s, and the first half of the 1990s-in both a thematic and chronological fashion. Using an engaging and approachable style-and an abundance of color illustrations, it takes a long look at dominant tendencies in contemporary art in the United States, Western and Eastern Europe, and Russia-and provides a series of challenging view points on the most advanced art forms, themes, and issues." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Introduction: Tradition and Avant-Garde; 1. Alternatives to Modernism: the 1970s; A new women's art; Performance art; The trials of conceptualism; The spectre of affirmative painting; 2. Painting and Politics: 1976-90; The return of the figure and of "expression"; Expressionism contexted; Something called "post-modernism"; Painting and "the feminine"; 3. Stolen Forms: 1976-90; Photography and gender; objects and the market; Painting and appropriation; 4. Art within the Museum: the later 1980s; Culture itself as subject; Installation as decay; The curator's part; The power of the photograph; A kind of publicity; 5. Narrating Identity: the early 1990s; The body and AIDS; West-coast post-modernism; Installations and the declasse; Narrating the body; The discourse of race; 6. Coda: Future Prospects. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Avant-Garde and After: Rethinking Art Now
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams; Prentice Hall, Inc., New York
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0133600416
• ISBN 13: 9780133600414
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Movements::Post-Modernism
  • XO::Standard
  • USA::6. Late Modern, 1945-1999
  • Aesthetics & Art Criticism
  • European::9. Contemporary
  • XXX::COLLECTIBLES

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Synopsis

For a course on Contemporary Art. Offering a critical perspective-rather than a traditional survey, this provocative text explores the art of the last twenty years-the latter 1970s, the 1980s, and the first half of the 1990s-in both a thematic and chronological fashion. Using an engaging and approachable style-and an abundance of color illustrations, it takes a long look at dominant tendencies in contemporary art in the United States, Western and Eastern Europe, and Russia-and provides a series of challenging view points on the most advanced art forms, themes, and issues.

About the Author

Brandon Taylor is professor in the department of history of art and design, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, England.