Themes in Contemporary Art

by Edited by Gill Perry and Paul Wood

• ISBN13: 9780300102970
• ISBN10: 0300102976
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2004-08-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

Themes in Contemporary Art discusses the art of the final third of the twentieth century. In seven related chapters, it looks at different aspects of the postmodernism that has dominated art since the 1960s. The first chapter offers a broad introduction to the art and theories of the period. The next three chapters examine the effect of the legacy of Conceptual Art on the idea of the 'aesthetic', which had dominated previous modernist art, on painting itself and on photography. The fifth chapter discusses the emergence of various types of installation, performance and video art. The last two chapters look at the consequences of new thinking about gender and identity and the phenomenon of cultural globalisation for the contemporary practice of art. Themes in Contemporary Art is the final volume in a series of four books about twentieth-century art. Each book can be read independently and is accessible to the general reader. However, as a series they form the main texts of an Open University third-level course, Art of the Twentieth Century, which examines the fundamental changes that took place in the concepts and practices of art during the twentieth century. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Inside the whale: an introduction to postmodernist art	p. 5
Conceptual Art, the aesthetic and the end(s) of art	p. 45
Post-conceptual painting: Gerhard Richter's extended leave-taking	p. 89
Photography out of Conceptual Art	p. 137
I/Eye/Oculus: performance, installation and video	p. 183
Dream houses: installations and the home	p. 231
Art and globalisation	p. 277
Further reading	p. 315
Index	p. 317
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