Art After Modernism

by Wallis, Brian; Tucker, Marcia

• ISBN13: 9780879236328
• ISBN10: 0879236329
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-08-01
• Publisher: David R Godine Pub

Summary

Essays present critical analyses of the current trends in arts such as painting, film, and photography

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Marcia Tucker
Introduction	xi
Brian Wallis
Image/Author/Critique	1	(42)
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote	3	(10)
Jorge Luis Borges
The Originality of the Avant-Garde: A Postmodern Repetition	13	(18)
Rosalind Krauss
Realism for the Cause of Future Revolution	31	(12)
Kathy Acker
Dismantling Modernism	43	(62)
The Rise of Andy Warhol	45	(14)
Robert Hughes
After Avant-Garde Film	59	(16)
J. Hoberman
Photography After Art Photography	75	(12)
Abigail Solomon-Godeau
Re-Viewing Modernist Criticism	87	(18)
Mary Kelly
Paroxysms of Painting	105	(62)
Figures of Authority, Ciphers of Regression	107	(30)
Benjamin H.D. Buchloh
Flak from the ``Radicals'': The American Case against German Painting	137	(16)
Donald B. Kuspit
Last Exit: Painting	153	(14)
Thomas Lawson
Theorizing Postmodernism	167	(70)
From Work to Text	169	(6)
Roland Barthes
Pictures	175	(14)
Douglas Crimp
Re: Post	189	(14)
Hal Foster
The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism	203	(34)
Craig Owens
The Fictions of Mass Media	237	(58)
Progress Versus Utopia; or, Can We Imagine the Future?	239	(14)
Fredric Jameson
The Precession of Simulacra	253	(30)
Jean Baudrillard
Eclipse of the Spectacle	283	(12)
Jonathan Crary
Cultural Politics	295	(64)
The Author as Producer	297	(14)
Walter Benjamin
Lookers, Buyers, Dealers, and Makers: Thoughts on Audience	311	(30)
Martha Rosler
Trojan Horses: Activist Art and Power	341	(18)
Lucy R. Lippard
Gender/Difference/Power	359	(76)
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema	361	(14)
Laura Mulvey
``A Certain Refusal of Difference'': Feminist Film Theory	375	(16)
Constance Penley
Representation and Sexuality	391	(26)
Kate Linker
The Subject and Power	417	(18)
Michel Foucault
Bibliography	435	(12)
Index	447	(13)
Contributors	460