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Delirious : art at the limits of reason, 1950-1980

Title
Delirious : art at the limits of reason, 1950-1980 / Kelly Baum, with Lucy Bradnock and Tina Rivers Ryan.
Author
Baum, Kelly
Publication
  • New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2017]
  • New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
  • Bradnock, Lucy
  • Ryan, Tina Rivers
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), issuing body, host institution.
Description
235 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm
Summary
Addressing the maniacal, eccentric, and disorienting in artworks made between 1950 and 1980, Delirious situates a fascination with the absurd and irrational within the context of the violence and brutality witnessed during World War II as well as the rapid expansion of industrial capitalism in the 1950s. Skepticism of science and technology--along with fear of its capability to promote mass destruction--developed into a distrust of rationalism, which in the arts had the paradoxical result of extracting irrational effects from rational means.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • This catalogue is published in conjunction with "Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980," on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from September 13, 2017 through January 14, 2018.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-231) and index.
Contents
Think crazy: the art and history of delirium / Kelly Baum -- Bite your tongue: Antonin Artaud and the neo-avant-garde / Lucy Bradnock -- Blown circuits: technology and irrationality in postwar art / Tine Rivers Ryan -- Plates. Excess -- Vertigo -- Twisted -- Nonsense.
Call Number
JQF 17-2040
ISBN
  • 9781588396334
  • 1588396339
LCCN
2017024499
OCLC
982652134
Author
Baum, Kelly, author.
Title
Delirious : art at the limits of reason, 1950-1980 / Kelly Baum, with Lucy Bradnock and Tina Rivers Ryan.
Publisher
New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2017]
Distributor
New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Event
"Delirious: art at the limits of reason, 1950-1980" : September 13, 2017 - January 14, 2018, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-231) and index.
Added Author
Bradnock, Lucy, author.
Ryan, Tina Rivers, author.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), issuing body, host institution.
Research Call Number
JQF 17-2040
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