Amer Art Since 1945 Woa Pa

by Joselit,David

• ISBN13: 9780500203682
• ISBN10: 0500203687
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-17
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Summary

David Joselit traces and analyzes the contradictory formal, ideological, and political conditions during this period that made American art predominant throughout the world. Social and cultural transformations rooted in mass media technologies'”photography, television, video, and the Internet'”elevated consumer commodities to the status of legitimate art subjects, as in pop and installation art, and also brought about a mechanization of the creative act. Canonical movements and figures are discussed at length'”Pollock, Rothko, Krasner, Oldenburg, Johns, Warhol, Paik, Ruscha, Sherman, Schnabel, Koons, Barney, and others'”in juxtaposition with lesser known contemporary artists and practices.

Author Biography

David Joselit is a Professor in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University.

Table of Contents

Preface	6	(3)
The Private Gesture in Public: Art of the New York School	9	(24)
Expanded Gestures: Painting of the 1950s	33	(31)
The Media Public Sphere: Pop and Beyond	64	(32)
Objects, General and Specific: Assemblage, Minimalism, Fluxus	96	(32)
Art as Information: Systems, Sites, Media	128	(32)
The Artist's Properties: From Conceptual Art to Identity Politics	160	(32)
Commodity Lifestyles: From Appropriation to the Posthuman	192	(50)
Timeline	242	(4)
Select Bibliography	246	(3)
List of Illustrations	249	(6)
Index	255