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Contemporary art : art since 1970 /

By: Taylor, Brandon.
Publisher: London : Laurence King Publishing, 2004Description: 256 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781856698849 (pbk); 9781856698849:; 185669884X (pbk); 9781856694230; 1856694232.Subject(s): Art, Modern -- 20th century | Art, Modern -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 709.04
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Alternatives to Modernism -- 2.Victory and Decline: The 1970s -- The Demands of Feminism -- Performance Art -- Film and Video -- The Spread of Radical Art -- 3.The Politics of Painting: 1972-1990 -- The Survival of Painting and Sculpture -- The Debate on the Figure and "Expression" -- Something called Postmodernism -- Painting and the Feminine -- 4.Images and Things: The 1980s -- Photography as an Art -- Objects and the Market -- Painting and Appropriation -- 5.In and Beyond the Museum: 1984-1998 -- Art Itself as the Subject -- Installation as Decay -- The Curator's Part -- Some Counter-Monuments -- 6.Marks of Identity: 1985-2000 -- Narrating the Body -- West Coast Postmodernism -- Slackers (and Others) -- Millennial Moods -- 7.Other Territories: 1992-2002 -- The Rise of Africa and Asia -- East European Renaissance -- Documenta -- 8.A New Complexity: 1999-2004 -- Chaos Theory -- The Art Museum: Emporium or Shrine? -- Spaces for Film.
Summary: Gathering together some of the most seminal moments of the last few years, this text places contemporary art in the context of both critical and public understanding of the works, as well as describing the latest trends and developments in international exhibitions.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 709.04 TAY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0076927
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-253) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Alternatives to Modernism -- 2.Victory and Decline: The 1970s -- The Demands of Feminism -- Performance Art -- Film and Video -- The Spread of Radical Art -- 3.The Politics of Painting: 1972-1990 -- The Survival of Painting and Sculpture -- The Debate on the Figure and "Expression" -- Something called Postmodernism -- Painting and the Feminine -- 4.Images and Things: The 1980s -- Photography as an Art -- Objects and the Market -- Painting and Appropriation -- 5.In and Beyond the Museum: 1984-1998 -- Art Itself as the Subject -- Installation as Decay -- The Curator's Part -- Some Counter-Monuments -- 6.Marks of Identity: 1985-2000 -- Narrating the Body -- West Coast Postmodernism -- Slackers (and Others) -- Millennial Moods -- 7.Other Territories: 1992-2002 -- The Rise of Africa and Asia -- East European Renaissance -- Documenta -- 8.A New Complexity: 1999-2004 -- Chaos Theory -- The Art Museum: Emporium or Shrine? -- Spaces for Film.

Gathering together some of the most seminal moments of the last few years, this text places contemporary art in the context of both critical and public understanding of the works, as well as describing the latest trends and developments in international exhibitions.

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