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Avant-garde and after : rethinking art now

Title

Avant-garde and after : rethinking art now / Brandon Taylor.

Author

Taylor, Brandon

Publication

New York : Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated ; Upper Saddle River, New Jersey : Prentice Hall Inc., [1995]
©1995

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Description

176 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Summary

"Offering a critical perspective-rather than a traditional survey, this provocative text explores the art of the last twenty years-the latter 1970s, the 1980s, and the first half of the 1990s-in both a thematic and chronological fashion. Using an engaging and approachable style-and an abundance of color illustrations, it takes a long look at dominant tendencies in contemporary art in the United States, Western and Eastern Europe, and Russia-and provides a series of challenging view points on the most advanced art forms, themes, and issues."--Amazon.

Series Statement

Perspectives

Uniform Title

Perspectives (Harry N. Abrams, Inc.)

Alternative Title

Avant garde and after

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 172) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Tradition and Avant-Garde -- 1. Alternatives to Modernism: the 1970s -- A new women's art -- Performance art -- The trials of conceptualism -- The spectre of affirmative painting -- 2. Painting and Politics: 1976-90 -- The return of the figure and of "expression" -- Expressionism contexted -- Something called "post-modernism" -- Painting and "the feminine" -- 3. Stolen Forms: 1976-90 -- Photography and gender -- objects and the market -- Painting and appropriation -- 4. Art within the Museum: the later 1980s -- Culture itself as subject -- Installation as decay -- The curator's part -- The power of the photograph -- A kind of publicity -- 5. Narrating Identity: the early 1990s -- The body and AIDS -- West-coast post-modernism -- Installations and the declasse -- Narrating the body -- The discourse of race -- 6. Coda: Future Prospects.

ISBN

0810927071
9780810927070
0133600416
9780133600414

LCCN

95079738

OCLC

ocm33438575
33438575
SCSB-2079769

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library