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Elizabeth C. Mansfield is Vice President for Scholarly Programs at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. She has taught art history at New York University and the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee . A scholar of modern European art and art historiography, her publications include books and articles on topics ranging from the origins of modernism to Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon to the contemporary performance and body art of Orlan. Her 2007 book Too Beautiful to Picture : Zeus, Myth, and Mimesis was awarded the College Art Association’s Charles Rufus Morey book prize.
The late H.H. Arnason was a distinguished art historian, educator, and museum administrator who for many years was Vice President for Art Administration of the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York. He began his professional life in academia, teaching at Northwestern University, University of Chicago, and the University of Hawaii. From 1947 to 1961, Arnason was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota.
In this Section:
1) Brief Table of Contents
2) Full Table of Contents
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 16: Abstract Expressionism and the New American Sculpture
Chapter 17: Postwar European Art
Chapter 18: Nouveau Réalisme and Fluxus
Chapter 19: Taking Chances with Popular Culture
Chapter 20: Playing by the Rules: Sixties Abstraction
Chapter 21: Modernism in Architecture at Mid-Century
Chapter 22: Conceptual and Activist Art
Chapter 23: Post-Minimalism, Earth Art, and New Imagists
Chapter 24: Postmodernism
Chapter 25: Painting through History
Chapter 26: New Perspectives on Art and Audience
Chapter 27: Contemporary Art and Globalization
FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 16: Abstract Expressionism and the New American Sculpture
Mondrian in New York: The Tempo of the Metropolis
Entering a New Arena: Modes of Abstract Expressionism
The Picture as Event: Experiments in Gestural Painting
Complex Simplicities: Color Field Painting
Drawing in Steel: Constructed Sculpture
Textures of the Surreal: Biomorphic Sculpture and Assemblage
Expressive Vision: Developments in American Photography
Chapter 17: Postwar European Art
Re-evaluations and Violations: Figurative Art in France
A Different Art: Abstraction in France
Postwar Juxtapositions: Figuration and Abstraction in Italy and Spain
“Forget It and Start Again”: The CoBrA Artists and Hundertwasser
The Postwar Body: British Sculpture and Painting
Marvels of Daily Life: European Photographers
Chapter 18: Nouveau Réalisme and Fluxus
“Sensibility in Material Form”: Klein
Fluxus
Chapter 19: Taking Chances with Popular Culture
“This is Tomorrow”: Pop Art in Britain
Signs of the Times: Pop Art in the United States
Getting Closer to Life: Happenings and Environments
“Just Look at the Surface”: The Imagery of Everyday Life
Poetics of the “New Gomorrah”: West Coast Artists
Personal Documentaries: The Snapshot Aesthetic in American Photography
Chapter 20: Playing by the Rules: Sixties Abstraction
Drawing the Veil: Post Painterly Abstraction
At an Oblique Angle: Diebenkorn
Forming the Unit: Hard-Edge Painting
Seeing Things: Op Art
New Media Mobilized: Motion and Light
The Limits of Modernism: Minimalism
Complex Unities: Photography and Minimalism
Chapter 21: Modernism in Architecture at Mid-Century
“The Quiet Unbroken Wave”: The Later Work of Wright and Le Corbusier
Purity and Proportion: The International Style in America
Internationalism Contextualized: Developments in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Australia
Breaking the Mold: Experimental Housing
Arenas for Innovation: Major Public Projects
Chapter 22: Conceptual and Activist Art
Art as Language
Conceptual Art as Cultural Critique
The Medium Is the Message: Early Video Art
When Art Becomes Artist: Body Art
Radical Alternatives: Feminist Art
Erasing the Boundaries between Art and Life: Later Feminist Art
Invisible to Visible: Art and Racial Politics
Chapter 23: Post-Minimalism, Earth Art, and New Imagists
Metaphors for Life: Process Art
Big Outdoors: Earthworks and Land Art
Public Statements: Monuments and Large-Scale Sculpture
Body of Evidence: Figurative Art
Animated Surfaces: Pattern and Decoration
Figure and Ambiguity: New Image Art
Chapter 24: Postmodernism
Postmodernism in Architecture
“Complexity and Contradiction”: The Reaction Against Modernism Sets In
In Praise of “Messy Vitality”: Postmodernist Eclecticism
Ironic Grandeur: Postmodern Architecture and History
What Is a Building?: Constructivist and Deconstructivist Architecture
Structure as Metaphor: Architectural Allegories
Flexible Spaces: Architecture and Urbanism
Postmodern Practices: Breaking Art History
Chapter 25: Painting through History
Primal Passions: Neo-Expressionism
Searing Statements: Painting as Social Conscience
In the Empire of Signs: Neo-Geo
The Sum of Many Parts: Abstraction in the 1980s
Taking Art to the Streets: Graffiti and Cartoon Artists
Painting Art History
Chapter 26: New Perspectives on Art and Audience
Commodity Art
Postmodern Arenas: Installation Art
Strangely Familiar: British and American Sculpture
Reprise and Reinterpretation: Art History as Art
New Perspectives on Childhood and Identity
The Art of Biography
Meeting Points: New Approaches to Abstraction
Chapter 27: Contemporary Art and Globalization
Lines That Define Us: Locating and Crossing Borders
Skin Deep: Identity and the Body
Occupying the Art World
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