Modernism in Dispute: Art Since the Forties (Modern Art Practices and Debates)

Harris, Jonathan; Frascina, Francis; Harrison, Dr. Charles; Wood, Paul

ISBN 10: 0300055226 / ISBN 13: 9780300055221

Verlag: Yale University Press, 1993

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0300055226-4-28408593

Inhaltsangabe:

This, the final volume in this series discusses how American art evolved from the social realism prevalent during the 1930s to a predominantly abstract art after the war, relates this change to America's growing economic and political dominance of the post-war world, and constrasts the abstraction of American art with the persistently realistic art of France. The authors then review the era of high Modernism in the 1960s and the challenge to Modernism by movements such as Minimal art, Land art, and Conceptual art, and they consider the moves to develop an art of overt social purpose in the wake of widespread criticism of Modernist claims for the autonomy of art. The book concludes by considering the implications of the Postmodernism debate for the practice of art today.

Reseña del editor: This, the final volume in this series discusses how American art evolved from the social realism prevalent during the 1930s to a predominantly abstract art after the war, relates this change to America's growing economic and political dominance of the post-war world, and constrasts the abstraction of American art with the persistently realistic art of France. The authors then review the era of high Modernism in the 1960s and the challenge to Modernism by movements such as Minimal art, Land art, and Conceptual art, and they consider the moves to develop an art of overt social purpose in the wake of widespread criticism of Modernist claims for the autonomy of art. The book concludes by considering the implications of the Postmodernism debate for the practice of art today.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Modernism in Dispute: Art Since the Forties ...
Verlag: Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Fair