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As new condition red cloth boards with black spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Directors' Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Notes to the Text; Artists' Biographies; Bibliography; Index; Photography Credits and List of Trustees. Illustrated with both black-and-white and color photographs. This volume was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946." Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, June 4, 1987 - August 30, 1987; Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October 15, 1987 - January 24, 1988; Queens Museum, Flushing, New York, February 13, 1988 - April 3, 1988; and Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, May 6, 1988 - June 26, 1988. "In the last forty years, photography has attained an unprecedented prominence in the art world. It has had an enormous influence on painting, drawing, and printmaking, and these in turn have greatly influenced the direction of photography itself. [The book] charts - for the first time - this complex interrelationship. Based on a major exhibition of the same title, [the book] reveals an unheralded aspect of image-making in the postwar period: a hybrid, mixed-media, interactive approach far removed from the purist aesthetics of modernism. The authors suggest that the superficially autonomous style of postwar modernist photography was in fact indebted to such art movements as Constructivism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism. And they argue that photography's role as a carrier of cultural information has made it central to the theoretical formulations and practices of Pop Art, Conceptual Art, and Postmodernist art, all of which have sought to open the visual arena to influences outside of traditional "high" culture. This thesis promises to radically revise how we understand photography and its role in contemporary art. It challenges those critics and historians of painting who still believe that photography is an outsider in the world of art, a medium too tied to literal description to be of significant aesthetic value. And it challenges many devotees of photography, who consider it to be a medium apart, with unique qualities that separate it from the other visual arts. As [the book's] more than 100 plates demonstrate, neither of these views can encompass the current diversity of photography as an art medium. To comprehend both the photography and the larger art world of today, the authors say, requires an understanding of their interactions. With its faithful reproductions, perceptive essays, artists' biographies, and extensive bibliography, [the book] is an informative survey of postwar art involving photography, and an indispensable resource for everyone with an interest in contemporary art." - from the inner front jacket flap.
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