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A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945
About this book
A Companion to Contemporary Art is a major survey covering the major works and movements, the most important theoretical developments, and the historical, social, political, and aesthetic issues in contemporary art since 1945, primarily in the Euro-American context.
- Collects 27 original essays by expert scholars describing the current state of scholarship in art history and visual studies, and pointing to future directions in the field.
- Contains dual chronological and thematic coverage of the major themes in the art of our time: politics, culture wars, public space, diaspora, the artist, identity politics, the body, and visual culture.
- Offers synthetic analysis, as well as new approaches to, debates central to the visual arts since 1945 such as those addressing formalism, the avant-garde, the role of the artist, technology and art, and the society of the spectacle.
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Table of contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Series Editorās Preface
- Acknowledgments
- PART I Introduction
- 1 Introduction: Writing Contemporary Art into History, a Paradox?
- PART II Decades
- 2 āAmericaā and its Discontents: Art and Politics 1945ā60
- 3 The 1960s: A Decade Out-of-Bounds
- 4 āIām sort of sliding around in place . . . ummm . . .ā: Art in the 1970s
- 5 Pictures and Positions in the 1980s
- 6 1990ā2005: In the Clutches of Time
- PART III Aesthetics
- 7 Form and Formless
- 8 Re-Thinking the āDuchamp Effectā
- 9 Regarding Beauty
- PART IV Politics
- 10 Avant-Garde: A Historiography of a Critical Concept
- 11 Facture for Change: US Activist Art since 1950
- 12 āThe Senators Were Revoltedā: Homophobia and the Culture Wars
- 13 Crowds and Connoisseurs: Art and the Public Sphere in America
- PART V Identity/Subjectivity
- 14 The Writerly Artist: Beautiful, Boring, and Blue
- 15 Diaspora: Multiple Practices, Multiple Worldviews
- 16 Power and Pleasure: Feminist Art Practice and Theory in the United States and Britain
- 17 Queer Wallpaper
- 18 Implications of Blackness in Contemporary Art
- 19 The Paradoxical Bodies of Contemporary Art
- PART VI Methods/Theories
- 20 A Shadow of Marx
- 21 Poststructuralism and Contemporary Art, Past, Present, Future . . .
- 22 āFragments of Collapsing Spaceā: Postcolonial Theory and Contemporary Art
- 23 Visual Culture Studies: Questions of History, Theory, and Practice
- PART VII Technology
- 24 āThatās All Folksā: Contemporary Art and Popular Culture
- 25 Image +Text: Reconsidering Photography in Contemporary Art
- 26 Imagine Thereās No Image (Itās Easy If You Try): Appropriation in the Age of Digital Reproduction
- 27 āLife-likeā: Historicizing Process and Responsiveness in Digital Art
- Index