A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945

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ISBN: 9781405135429 | 1405135425
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Copyright: 4/3/2006

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A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945 is an ambitious 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.

List of Figures	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. xiv
Series Editor's Preface	p. xviii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
Writing Contemporary Art into History, a Paradox?	p. 3
Decades	p. 17
1945-60
"America" and its Discontents: Art and Politics 1945-60	p. 19
1960-70
The 1960s: A Decade Out-of-Bounds	p. 38
1970-80
"I'm sort of sliding around in place ... ummm ...": Art in the 1970s	p. 60
1980-90
Pictures and Positions in the 1980s	p. 83
1990-2005
1990-2005: In the Clutches of Time	p. 107
Aesthetics	p. 125
Formalism
Form and Formless	p. 127
Art as Idea
Re-Thinking the "Duchamp Effect"	p. 145
Beauty
Regarding Beauty	p. 164
Politics	p. 189
Avant-Garde
Avant-Garde: A Historiography of a Critical Concept	p. 191
Activism
Facture for Change: US Activist Art since 1950	p. 212
Culture Wars
"The Senators Were Revolted": Homophobia and the Culture Wars	p. 231
Art and Its Public(s)
Crowds and Connoisseurs: Art and the Public Sphere in America	p. 249
Identity/Subjectivity	p. 269
The Artist
The Writerly Artist: Beautiful, Boring, and Blue	p. 271
Diaspora
Diaspora: Multiple Practices, Multiple Worldviews	p. 296
Feminism
Power and Pleasure: Feminist Art Practice and Theory in the United States and Britain	p. 317
Queer
Queer Wallpaper	p. 343
Race/Ethnicity
Implications of Blackness in Contemporary Art	p. 356
Embodiment
The Paradoxical Bodies of Contemporary Art	p. 378
Methods/Theories	p. 401
Marxism
A Shadow of Marx	p. 403
Poststructuralism
Poststructuralism and Contemporary Art, Past, Present, Future ...	p. 424
Postcolonial Theory
"Fragments of Collapsing Space": Postcolonial Theory and Contemporary Art	p. 450
Visual Culture
Visual Culture Studies: Questions of History, Theory, and Practice	p. 470
Technology	p. 491
Mass Culture, High/Low
"That's All Folks": Contemporary Art and Popular Culture	p. 493
Photography/Index
Image + Text: Reconsidering Photography in Contemporary Art	p. 512
Spectacle/Appropriation
Imagine There's No Image (It's Easy If You Try): Appropriation in the Age of Digital Reproduction	p. 534
Digital Media
"Life-like": Historicizing Process and Responsiveness in Digital Art	p. 557
Index	p. 582
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