A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945
Amelia Jones " A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945"
Wiley-Blackwell | 2006-04-10 | ISBN: 1405107944 | 648 pages | PDF | 11,2 MB
Wiley-Blackwell | 2006-04-10 | ISBN: 1405107944 | 648 pages | PDF | 11,2 MB
A Companion to Contemporary Art is a major survey covering the major works and movements, the most important theoretical developments, and the historical, social, political, and aesthetic issues in contemporary art since 1945, primarily in the Euro-American context.
* Collects 27 original essays by expert scholars describing the current state of scholarship in art history and visual studies, and pointing to future directions in the field.
* Contains dual chronological and thematic coverage of the major themes in the art of our time: politics, culture wars, public space, diaspora, the artist, identity politics, the body, and visual culture.
* Offers synthetic analysis, as well as new approaches to, debates central to the visual arts since 1945 such as those addressing formalism, the avant-garde, the role of the artist, technology and art, and the society of the spectacle.
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