After Modern Art : 1945-2017.

Author/creator Hopkins, David
Format Electronic
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoOxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Description1 online resource (349 pages).
Supplemental ContentProQuest Ebook Central
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SeriesOxford History of Art Ser
Oxford History of Art Ser. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Cover; Half-Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; 1. The Politics of Modernism: Abstract Expressionism and the European Informel; Lost politics: Abstract Expressionism; Cold War aesthetics; Art and social function; The bodily and the transcendent: France and America; Modernism; The fallout from Modernism: critiques of Greenberg; 2. Duchamp's Legacy: The Rauschenberg-Johns Axis; Marcel Duchamp; The spectator's share: Cage, Rauschenberg, and assemblage; McCarthyism and masculinity; Metaphors of sexual identity: Jasper Johns; The aesthetics of indifference.
Contents Readymades and replications; 3. The Artist in Crisis: From Bacon to Beuys; Humanism and individualism: British and French figuration in the 1950s; Art and commodity: New Realism; The commodification of spirituality: Yves Klein; The body's economy: Piero Manzoni; The artist-hero: Beuys and West German art; 4. Blurring Boundaries: Pop Art, Fluxus, and their Effects; Pop culture and mechanical reproduction: the Independent Group; 'The aesthetics of plenty': Pop Art in Britain; 'The gap between art and life': Happenings, Fluxus, and anti-art; Pop Art in America: Lichtenstein and Warhol.
Contents Pop and politics: the US and West Germany; 5. Modernism in Retreat: Minimalist Aesthetics and Beyond; The non-relational: Reinhardt, Stella, Judd; Minimalism and anti-rationalism; 'Art and Objecthood': Fried and his detractors; Anti Form and body metaphors: Hesse and Bourgeois; Minimalist legacies: sculpture, film, public art; 6. The Death of the Object: The Move to Conceptualism; 1968: political radicalism and counterculture; Institutional critique: Broodthaers and Haacke; Art into life: Arte Povera; Primordial returns: Smithson, Land Art, and language; Dematerialization: Conceptual Art.
Contents The rise of semiotics: Burgin and conceptualism; Gender positions: feminism and art; Questions of 'presence': Body Art and Performance; 7. Postmodernism: Theory and Practice in the 1980s; Theories of the postmodern; The return to painting; The backlash against painting: photo-related practices; The 'postmodern sublime': permutations of photo-painting; Art and difference; Simulation and abjection: the late 1980s; Installation as a paradigm; 8. The 1990s: A New Fin de Siècle?; The British art revival; Video and narrative; Individualism, localism, and globalization.
Contents Psychic resources: post-Surrealism childhood; masculinity; Fin de siècle: memory; 9. Art and the New Millennium; The spectacle of capital: art and the Internet; The art system post-2000; Global aesthetics: displacement, migration, borders, identity; Aesthetic trends: relational art; Post-medium/return to medium; 'Contemporary art': the sense of an ending; Notes; Further Reading; Timeline Galleries and Websites Picture Credits Index; Picture Credits; Index.
Abstract A beautifully illustrated, new edition of this pioneering study of art since 1945. Focusing mainly on the relationship between American and European Art, this book offers an up-to-date introduction to the major artists and movements of recent years.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 275-294) and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Hopkins, David. After Modern Art : 1945-2017. Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2018 9780199218455
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ISBN9780191084485
ISBN0191084484
ISBN9780191084492 (electronic bk.)
ISBN0191084492 (electronic bk.)
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