Book Description
The Grove Art series is intended to provide wide-reaching art subject resources derived from the award-winning, 34 volume Dictionary of Art in easily handheld volumes.
Author : Jane Turner
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 10,7 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : 9780333920466
The Grove Art series is intended to provide wide-reaching art subject resources derived from the award-winning, 34 volume Dictionary of Art in easily handheld volumes.
Author : Richard John Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 14,65 MB
Release : 1999-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521648691
In Modernism, Expressionism and Theories of the Avant Garde, Richard Murphy mobilises theories of the postmodern to challenge our understanding of the avant-garde. He assesses the importance of the avant-garde for contemporary culture and for the debates among theorists of postmodernism such as Jameson, Eagleton, Lyotard and Habermas. Murphy reconsiders the classic formulation of the avant-garde in Lukacs and Bloch, especially their discussion of aesthetic autonomy, and investigates the relationship between art and politics via a discussion of Marcuse, Adorno and Benjamin. Combining close textual readings of a wide range of films as well as works of literature, it draws on a rich array of critical theories, such as those of Bakhtin, Todorov, MacCabe, Belsey and Raymond Williams. This interdisciplinary project will appeal to all those interested in modernist and avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century, and provides a critical rethinking of the present-day controversy regarding postmodernity.
Author : Brandon Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN :
In this book, the author provides a summary of the main tenents of modernism in art, and then considers the phenomenon of post-modernism, allegedly the central condition of art in the post-war world, one determined by popular culture, feminism, historical styles and new trends in psychoanalysis and philosophy.
Author : David Britt
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,67 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500238417
With over 400 color illustrations, this authoritative introduction covers every major development in the visual arts, from Impressionism to Post-Modernism.
Author : Richard Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 12,39 MB
Release : 1999-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521632911
In Theorizing the Avant-Garde Richard Murphy mobilizes theories of the postmodern to challenge our understanding of the avant-garde and assesses its importance for the debates among theorists of postmodernism such as Jameson, Eagleton, Lyotard and Habermas. Murphy reconsiders the classic formulations of the avant-garde and investigates the relationship between art and politics via a discussion of Marcuse, Adorno and Benjamin. Combining close textual readings of a wide range of films as well as works of literature, this interdisciplinary project will appeal to all those interested in twentieth-century modernist movements and postmodernity.
Author : Herbert Grabes
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 20,19 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9042029110
This compact, indispensable overview answers a vexed question: Why do so many works of modern and postmodern literature and art seem designed to appear ‘strange’, and how can they still cause pleasure in the beholder? To help overcome the initial barrier caused by this ‘strangeness’, the general reader is given an initial, non-technical description of the ‘aesthetic of the strange’ as it is experienced in the reading or viewing process. There follows a broad survey of modern and postmodern trends, illustrating their staggering variety and making plain the manifold methods and strategies adopted by writers and artists to ‘make it strange’. The book closes with a systematic summary of the theoretical underpinnings of the ‘aesthetic of the strange’, focussing on the ways in which it differs from both the earlier ‘aesthetic of the beautiful’ and the ‘aesthetic of the sublime’. It is made amply clear that the strangeness characteristic of modern and postmodern art has ushered in an entirely new, ‘third’ kind of aesthetic – one that has undergone further transformation over the past two decades. Beyond its usefulness as a practical introduction to the ‘aesthetic of the strange’, the present study also takes up the most recent, cutting-edge aspects of scholarly debate, while initiates are offered an original approach to the theoretical implications of this seminal phenomenon.
Author : Eleanor Heartney
Publisher : Tate Gallery Publishing Limited
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN :
Neo-expressionism - The anti-aesthetes - Postmodern feminism - Postmodern multiculturalism - Commodity critics.
Author : Chris Garratt
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 11,64 MB
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1848317603
What connects Marliyn Monroe, Disneyworld, "The Satanic Verses" and cyber space? Answer: Postmodernism. But what exactly is postmodernism? This Graphic Guide explains clearly the maddeningly enigmatic concept that has been used to define the world's cultural condition over the last three decades. Introducing Postmodernism tracks the idea back to its roots by taking a tour of some of the most extreme and exhilarating events, people and thought of the last 100 years: in art - constructivism, conceptual art, Marcel Duchamp, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol; in politics and history - McCarthy's witch-hunts, feminism, Francis Fukuyama and the Holocaust; in philosophy - the work of Derrida, Baudrillard, Foucault and Heidegger.The book also explores postmodernism's take on today, and the anxious grip of globalisation, unpredictable terrorism and unforeseen war that greeted the dawn of the 21st century. Regularly controversial, rarely straightforward and seldom easy, postmodernism is nonetheless a thrilling intellectual adventure. Introducing Postmodernism is the ideal guide.
Author : Agara Schymocha
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 33,30 MB
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 3668512213
Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Art - Visual artists, , language: English, abstract: This essay concerns itself with the conceptual painting of New York artist Jonathan Lasker and establishes an understanding of his pictorial language as a postmodern position. The text examines the socio-political context underlying Modernism, and how that shaped its artistic values and ideals, in order to understand the problems and challenges facing the postmodern generation. Lasker’s painting, “Hidden Identity,” is looked at as an example in order to arrive at a precise and nuanced understanding of his artistic statement.
Author : Jane Turner
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,5 MB
Release : 2000
Category :
ISBN : 9780312229764