After Modern Art : 1945-2000. txt
David Hopkins.
- 282 p. ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. book
- Oxford History of Art .
Include index.
Contents: Introduction I -- Chapter 1 The Politics of Modernism: Abstract Expressionism and the European Informel 5 -- Chapter 2 Duchamp’s Legacy: The Rauschenberg Johns Axis 37 -- Chapter 3 The Artist in Crisis: From Bacon to Beuys 67 -- Chapter 4 Blurring Boundaries: Pop Art, Fluxus and their Effects 95 -- Chapter 5 Modernism in Retreat : Minimalist Aesthetics and Beyond 131 -- Chapter 6 The Death of the Object : The Move to Conceptualism 161 -- Chapter 7 Postmodernism : Theory and Practice in the 1980s 197 -- Chapter 8 Into the 1990s 233 -- Notes 246 -- Further Reading 252 -- Timeline 260 -- Galleries and Websites 266 -- Picture Credits 269 -- Index 275 --
Modern and contemporary art can be both baffling and beautiful, it can also be innovative, political, and disturbing. Closely informed by critical approaches, this book sets out to provide the first concise interpretation of this period. Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, and Damien Hirst are among many artists discussed, within the political and cultural worlds they inhabited. The theoretical and issue-based debates that have driven the art of this period art along are followed through the key movements of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptualism, Postmodernism. This book is intended as an introduction to art in the latter half of the 20th Century for students and the general reader interested in modern and contemporary art --