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How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art

  • Categories: Art

"A provocative interpretation of the political and cultural history of the early cold war years. . . . By insisting that art, even art of the avant-garde, is part of the general culture, not autonomous or above it, he forces us to think differently not only about art and art history but about society itself."—New York Times Book Review

How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art

  • Categories: Art

"A provocative interpretation of the political and cultural history of the early cold war years. . . . By insisting that art, even art of the avant-garde, is part of the general culture, not autonomous or above it, he forces us to think differently not only about art and art history but about society itself."--New York Times Book Review

Reconstructing Modernism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 418

Reconstructing Modernism

  • Categories: Art

These essays reopen the case of postwar abstraction. They constitute a dialogue among historians, critics, painters, and art historians that allows not only new readings of specific art works but also a new understanding of the reception of art in the postwar Western world. Timothy J. Clark, Thierry de Duve, Constance Naubert-Riser, and Thomas Crow focus on specific works of major artists of the period. Laurie J. Monahan, Serge Guilbaut, and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh look at art production in relation to particular aspects of the Cold War. Jean Baudrillard and Francois-Marc Gagnon discuss the effects of the international situation on the arts in general. John Franklin Koenig describes the experience of an American artist working in Paris after the war. John O'Brian relates the impact and the reception of Matisse's work in New York, and Lary May discusses the transformation of Hollywood during the McCarthy era. Serge Guilbaut is Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia.

Internationalizing the History of American Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

Internationalizing the History of American Art

  • Categories: Art

"A collection of essays presenting international perspectives on the narratives and the practices grounding the scholarly study of American art"--Provided by publisher.

Abstract Expressionism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

Abstract Expressionism

  • Categories: Art

A collection of essays that discuss abstract expressionist art.

Be-bomb
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 788

Be-bomb

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Actar D

Compiled by the French historian Serge Guilbaut, Be-Bomb compares and contrasts the art produced in France and the US bewteen 1946-1956 to explore how and why certain works became cultural icons and media images for great commercial success for respective each country. The book analyses the aesthetic debate of the period when New York began replacing Paris as the nerve centre of modern art.

After the Great Divide
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

After the Great Divide

  • Categories: Art

"One of the most comprehensive and intelligent postmodern critics of art and literature, Huyssen collects here a series of his essays on pomo . . . " —Village Voice Literary Supplement " . . . his work remains alert to the problematic relationship obtaining between marxisms and poststructuralisms." —American Literary History " . . . challenging and astute." —World Literature Today "Huyssen's level-headed account of this controversial constellation of critical voices brings welcome clarification to today's murky haze of cultural discussion and proves definitively that commentary from the tradition of the German Left has an indispensable role to play in contemporary criticism." —The German Quarterly " . . . we will certainly have, after reading this book, a deeper understanding of the forces that have led up to the present and of the possibilities still open to us." —Critical Texts " . . . a rich, multifaceted study." —The Year's Work in English Studies Huyssen argues that postmodernism cannot be regarded as a radical break with the past, as it is deeply indebted to that other trend within the culture of modernity—the historical avant-garde.

Pollock and After
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

Pollock and After

  • Categories: Art

This revised edition features ten new articles and is fully updated to take account of new critical approaches to post-war American art.

Chatting with Henri Matisse
  • Language: en

Chatting with Henri Matisse

In 1941 the Swiss art critic Pierre Courthion interviewed Henri Matisse while the artist was in bed recovering from a serious operation. It was an extensive interview, seen at the time as a vital assessment of Matisse's career and set to be published by Albert Skira's then newly established Swiss press. After months of complicated discussions between Courthion and Matisse, and just weeks before the book was to come out--the artist even had approved the cover design--Matisse suddenly refused its publication. A typescript of the interview now resides in Courthion's papers at the Getty Research Institute. This rich conversation, conducted during the Nazi occupation of France, is published for t...

Creative Industries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 472

Creative Industries

  • Categories: Art

"To explain the logic of these arrangements, the author draws on the analytical resources of industrial economics and the theory of contracts. He addresses the winner-take-all character of many creative activities that brings wealth and renown to some artists while dooming others to frustration; why the "option" form of contract is so prevalent; and why even savvy producers get sucked into making "ten-ton turkeys," such as Heaven's Gate."--BOOK JACKET.