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Author:

Hopkins, David, 1955-

Title:

After modern art : 1945-2000 / David Hopkins.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2000

Description:

282 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Art, American--20th century.
Art, European--20th century.
Art américain--20e siècle.
Art européen--20e siècle.
Arte americano--Siglo XX.
Arte europeo--Siglo XX.
Beeldende kunsten.
Modernisme (cultuur)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-258) and index.

Contents:

The politics of Modernism: Abstract Expressionism and the European informel -- Duchamp's legacy: the Rauschenberg-Johns axis -- The artist in crisis: from Bacon to Beuys -- Blurring boundaries: Pop art, Fluxus, and their effects -- Modernism in retreat: Minimalist aesthetics and beyond -- The death of the object: the move to Conceptualism -- Postmodernism: theory and practice in the 1980s -- Into the 1990s.

Summary:

Modern and contemporary art can be both baffling and beautiful, it can also be innovative, political, and disturbing. Closely informed by critical approaches, this book sets out to provide the first concise interpretation of this period. Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, and Damien Hirst are among many artists discussed, within the political and cultural worlds they inhabited. The theoretical and issue-based debates that have driven the art of this period art along are followed through the key movements of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptualism, Postmodernism. This book is intended as an introduction to art in the latter half of the 20th Century for students and the general reader interested in modern and contemporary art.

Series:

Oxford history of art

ISBN:

9780192842817 (hbk.)
0192842811 (hbk.)
9780192842343 (alk. paper)
019284234X (alk. paper)

LCCN:

00036750

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

NYPE343 -- Charles City Public Library (Charles City)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OAAX516 -- Maharishi University of Management Library (Fairfield)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

PBPC546 -- Sigourney Public Library (Sigourney)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)