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Book Synopsis
* Features a grand survey of the historical, social, and aesthetic issues relevant to the development of contemporary art since 1945. * 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.

Trade Review
"This Companion represents a move away from the more traditionally conceived broad surveys of contemporary art available to date, and is refreshing in its innovative approach to this complex subject ... essential reading for students and scholars of contemporary art history, visual culture, and visual theory, and general readers just wishing to develop their understanding of this complex subject." Reference Reviews

“Provocative, wide-ranging, and impressively inclusive…a welcome and important addition for the understanding of the art of our historical present and a boon companion for the general reader, the artist, the student, the art historian and the critic alike.” Abigail Solomon-Godeau, University of California, Santa Barbara


“By keeping its finger on the pulse of the present, while commenting on the recent past, this book reminds us why contemporary art, and contemporary art history, matters." Geoffrey Batchen, City University of New York



Table of Contents

List of Figures ix

Notes on Contributors xiv

Series Editor’s Preface xviii

Acknowledgments xix

Part I: Introduction 1

1 Writing Contemporary Art into History, a Paradox? 3
Amelia Jones

Part II: Decades 17
1945–60

2 “America” and its Discontents: Art and Politics 1945–60 19
Gavin Butt
1960–70

3 The 1960s: A Decade Out-of-Bounds 38
Anna Dezeuze
1970–80

4 “I’m sort of sliding around in place . . . ummm . . .”: Art in the 1970s 60
Sam Gathercole
1980–90

5 Pictures and Positions in the 1980s 83
Howard Singerman
1990–2005

6 1990–2005: In the Clutches of Time 107
Henry M. Sayre

Part III: Aesthetics 125

Formalism
7 Form and Formless 127
Caroline A. Jones

Art as Idea
8 Re-Thinking the “Duchamp Effect” 145
David Hopkins

Beauty
9 Regarding Beauty 164
Margaret Morgan

Part IV: Politics 189
Avant-Garde

10 Avant-Garde: A Historiography of a Critical Concept 191
Johanne Lamoureux

Activism
11 Facture for Change: US Activist Art since 1950 212
Jennifer González and Adrienne Posner

Culture Wars
12 “The Senators Were Revolted”: Homophobia and the Culture Wars 231
Jonathan D. Katz

Art and Its Public(s)
13 Crowds and Connoisseurs: Art and the Public Sphere in America 249
Grant Kester

Part V: Identity/Subjectivity 269

The Artist
14 The Writerly Artist: Beautiful, Boring, and Blue 271
Carol Mavor

Diaspora
15 Diaspora: Multiple Practices, Multiple Worldviews 296
Steven Nelson

Feminism
16 Power and Pleasure: Feminist Art Practice and Theory in the United States and Britain 317
Laura Meyer

Queer
17 Queer Wallpaper 343
Jennifer Doyle

Race/Ethnicity
18 Implications of Blackness in Contemporary Art 356
Pauline de Souza

Embodiment
19 The Paradoxical Bodies of Contemporary Art 378
Christine Ross

Part VI: Methods/Theories 401

Marxism
20 A Shadow of Marx 403
Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska

Poststructuralism
21 Poststructuralism and Contemporary Art, Past, Present, Future . . . 424
Sarah Wilson

Postcolonial Theory
22 “Fragments of Collapsing Space”: Postcolonial Theory and Contemporary Art 450
Mark Crinson

Visual Culture
23 Visual Culture Studies: Questions of History, Theory, and Practice 470
Marquard Smith

Part VII: Technology 491

Mass Culture, High/Low
24 “That’s All Folks”: Contemporary Art and Popular Culture 493
Nick Mirzoeff

Photography/Index
25 Image + Text: Reconsidering Photography in Contemporary Art 512
Liz Kotz

Spectacle/Appropriation
26 Imagine There’s No Image (It’s Easy If You Try): Appropriation in the Age of Digital Reproduction 534
Dore Bowen

Digital Media
27 “Life-like”: Historicizing Process and Responsiveness in Digital Art 557
María Fernández

Index 582

A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 22/03/2006
      ISBN13: 9781405135429, 978-1405135429
      ISBN10: 1405135425
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      * Features a grand survey of the historical, social, and aesthetic issues relevant to the development of contemporary art since 1945. * 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.

      Trade Review
      "This Companion represents a move away from the more traditionally conceived broad surveys of contemporary art available to date, and is refreshing in its innovative approach to this complex subject ... essential reading for students and scholars of contemporary art history, visual culture, and visual theory, and general readers just wishing to develop their understanding of this complex subject." Reference Reviews

      “Provocative, wide-ranging, and impressively inclusive…a welcome and important addition for the understanding of the art of our historical present and a boon companion for the general reader, the artist, the student, the art historian and the critic alike.” Abigail Solomon-Godeau, University of California, Santa Barbara


      “By keeping its finger on the pulse of the present, while commenting on the recent past, this book reminds us why contemporary art, and contemporary art history, matters." Geoffrey Batchen, City University of New York



      Table of Contents

      List of Figures ix

      Notes on Contributors xiv

      Series Editor’s Preface xviii

      Acknowledgments xix

      Part I: Introduction 1

      1 Writing Contemporary Art into History, a Paradox? 3
      Amelia Jones

      Part II: Decades 17
      1945–60

      2 “America” and its Discontents: Art and Politics 1945–60 19
      Gavin Butt
      1960–70

      3 The 1960s: A Decade Out-of-Bounds 38
      Anna Dezeuze
      1970–80

      4 “I’m sort of sliding around in place . . . ummm . . .”: Art in the 1970s 60
      Sam Gathercole
      1980–90

      5 Pictures and Positions in the 1980s 83
      Howard Singerman
      1990–2005

      6 1990–2005: In the Clutches of Time 107
      Henry M. Sayre

      Part III: Aesthetics 125

      Formalism
      7 Form and Formless 127
      Caroline A. Jones

      Art as Idea
      8 Re-Thinking the “Duchamp Effect” 145
      David Hopkins

      Beauty
      9 Regarding Beauty 164
      Margaret Morgan

      Part IV: Politics 189
      Avant-Garde

      10 Avant-Garde: A Historiography of a Critical Concept 191
      Johanne Lamoureux

      Activism
      11 Facture for Change: US Activist Art since 1950 212
      Jennifer González and Adrienne Posner

      Culture Wars
      12 “The Senators Were Revolted”: Homophobia and the Culture Wars 231
      Jonathan D. Katz

      Art and Its Public(s)
      13 Crowds and Connoisseurs: Art and the Public Sphere in America 249
      Grant Kester

      Part V: Identity/Subjectivity 269

      The Artist
      14 The Writerly Artist: Beautiful, Boring, and Blue 271
      Carol Mavor

      Diaspora
      15 Diaspora: Multiple Practices, Multiple Worldviews 296
      Steven Nelson

      Feminism
      16 Power and Pleasure: Feminist Art Practice and Theory in the United States and Britain 317
      Laura Meyer

      Queer
      17 Queer Wallpaper 343
      Jennifer Doyle

      Race/Ethnicity
      18 Implications of Blackness in Contemporary Art 356
      Pauline de Souza

      Embodiment
      19 The Paradoxical Bodies of Contemporary Art 378
      Christine Ross

      Part VI: Methods/Theories 401

      Marxism
      20 A Shadow of Marx 403
      Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska

      Poststructuralism
      21 Poststructuralism and Contemporary Art, Past, Present, Future . . . 424
      Sarah Wilson

      Postcolonial Theory
      22 “Fragments of Collapsing Space”: Postcolonial Theory and Contemporary Art 450
      Mark Crinson

      Visual Culture
      23 Visual Culture Studies: Questions of History, Theory, and Practice 470
      Marquard Smith

      Part VII: Technology 491

      Mass Culture, High/Low
      24 “That’s All Folks”: Contemporary Art and Popular Culture 493
      Nick Mirzoeff

      Photography/Index
      25 Image + Text: Reconsidering Photography in Contemporary Art 512
      Liz Kotz

      Spectacle/Appropriation
      26 Imagine There’s No Image (It’s Easy If You Try): Appropriation in the Age of Digital Reproduction 534
      Dore Bowen

      Digital Media
      27 “Life-like”: Historicizing Process and Responsiveness in Digital Art 557
      María Fernández

      Index 582

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