Postmodern Perspectives
Issues in Contemporary Art
2nd Edition
Published on 10. November 1998
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Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-13-614504-2 (ISBN)
Description
For use in upper-level undergraduate and graduate Art History courses in Criticism and Theory of Contemporary Art, as well as Critical Methods of Contemporary Art Writing.
Exploring the relationship between contemporary art, culture, and society, this book offers students a guide to the general structure and focus of Postmodern critical discourse, preparing them to understand the origins, theories, and interrelated ideas of Postmodern art and art criticism within a broader social and political context. Insightful and enlightening, it organizes material into six groups of essays-each centering around a specific idea/issue and delineating the main philosophical, theoretical, and critical approaches that have shaped criticism in the Postmodern period.
Exploring the relationship between contemporary art, culture, and society, this book offers students a guide to the general structure and focus of Postmodern critical discourse, preparing them to understand the origins, theories, and interrelated ideas of Postmodern art and art criticism within a broader social and political context. Insightful and enlightening, it organizes material into six groups of essays-each centering around a specific idea/issue and delineating the main philosophical, theoretical, and critical approaches that have shaped criticism in the Postmodern period.
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Content
I. ART AND AESTHETICS: LATE MODERNISM AND THE FORMALIST DEBATE.
1. Clement Greenberg, Modernist Painting.
2. T.J. Clark, Clement Greenberg's Theory of Art.
3. Michael Fried, How Modernism Works: A Response to T.J. Clark.
4. Juergen Habermas, Modernity versus Postmodernity.
II. ART AND SOCIETY: IDEOLOGICAL CRITICISM.
5. Lucy R. Lippard, Sex and Death and Shock and Schlock: A Long Review of "The Times Square Show."
6. Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Since Realism There Was....
7. Hilton Kramer, Turning Back the Clock: Art and Politics in 1984.
8. Donald B. Kuspit, Crowding the Picture: Notes on American Activist Art Today.
III. COGNITIVE AND COMMUNICATIVE STRUCTURE OF ART.
9. Douglas Crimp, The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism.
10. Thomas Lawson, Last Exit: Painting.
11. Hal Foster, Signs Taken for Wonders.
IV. FEMINIST CRITICISM.
12. Craig Owens, The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism.
13. Kate Linker, Eluding Definition.
14. Maureen Turim, What is Sexual Difference?
V. PSYCHOANALYTICAL CRITICISM AND ART.
15. Ellen Handler Spitz, An Insubstantial Pageant Faded: A Psychoanalytic Epitaph for New York City Subway Car Graffiti.
16. Mary Mathews Gedo, An Autobiography in the Shape of Alabama: The Art of Roger Brown.
17. Donald B. Kuspit, Artist Envy.
VI. MARGINALITY AND THE OTHER.
18. Thelma Golden, "What's White...?"
19. Eleanor Heartney, Identity Politics at the Whitney.
20. Jennie Klein, Circumventing the Center: Identity Politics and Marginalization.
Postscript.
Index.
1. Clement Greenberg, Modernist Painting.
2. T.J. Clark, Clement Greenberg's Theory of Art.
3. Michael Fried, How Modernism Works: A Response to T.J. Clark.
4. Juergen Habermas, Modernity versus Postmodernity.
II. ART AND SOCIETY: IDEOLOGICAL CRITICISM.
5. Lucy R. Lippard, Sex and Death and Shock and Schlock: A Long Review of "The Times Square Show."
6. Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Since Realism There Was....
7. Hilton Kramer, Turning Back the Clock: Art and Politics in 1984.
8. Donald B. Kuspit, Crowding the Picture: Notes on American Activist Art Today.
III. COGNITIVE AND COMMUNICATIVE STRUCTURE OF ART.
9. Douglas Crimp, The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism.
10. Thomas Lawson, Last Exit: Painting.
11. Hal Foster, Signs Taken for Wonders.
IV. FEMINIST CRITICISM.
12. Craig Owens, The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism.
13. Kate Linker, Eluding Definition.
14. Maureen Turim, What is Sexual Difference?
V. PSYCHOANALYTICAL CRITICISM AND ART.
15. Ellen Handler Spitz, An Insubstantial Pageant Faded: A Psychoanalytic Epitaph for New York City Subway Car Graffiti.
16. Mary Mathews Gedo, An Autobiography in the Shape of Alabama: The Art of Roger Brown.
17. Donald B. Kuspit, Artist Envy.
VI. MARGINALITY AND THE OTHER.
18. Thelma Golden, "What's White...?"
19. Eleanor Heartney, Identity Politics at the Whitney.
20. Jennie Klein, Circumventing the Center: Identity Politics and Marginalization.
Postscript.
Index.