END OF THE ART WLD PA

by MORGAN,ROBERT C.

• ISBN13: 9781581150100
• ISBN10: 1581150105
• Edition: 00
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1998-11-17
• Publisher: FRWHEEL

Summary

The most significant change in the art world over the past two decades has not been the evolution of a new style or movement but in how art is promoted and marketed. After prices accelerated in the 1980s, today's art world is beginning to look more like a multi-national corporation than a cultural institution. Acclaimed critic, poet, and historian Robert C. Morgan presents a stimulating collection of writings on the separation of the "art world" from the realities of the artist community, arguing for a new qualitative standard in art, not only in painting and sculpture, but also in literature, music, video, photography, conceptual art, and installations. Poignantly and powerfully written, he calls for an end to the art world as we know it, a world governed by the trends of fashion, media, and popular entertainment, and proposes a return to aesthetics and a new inner-directedness in art. 

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Acknowledgments	xi
Foreword: The Beginning of the Art World	xv
Bill Beckley
Introduction	xvii
I. Manifestos
The End of the Art World	3	(8)
The Delta of Modernism	11	(8)
The Status of Kitsch	19	(8)
Signs in Flotation	27	(8)
The Plight of Art Criticism	35	(6)
A Sign of Beauty	41	(10)
II. History
The Boredom of Cezanne	51	(4)
The Enduring Art of the Sixties	55	(12)
Antiformalist Art of the Seventies	67	(12)
Eccentric Abstraction and Postminimalism	79	(12)
American Sculpture and the Search for a Referent	91	(8)
Art Outside the Museum	99	(12)
III. Artists
Nancy Grossman: Opus Volcanus	111	(8)
Sang Nam Lee: Minus and Plus	119	(4)
The Fundamental Theology of Gilbert and George	123	(4)
Carolee Schneemann: The Politics of Eroticism	127	(6)
Bruce Conner: Engraving Collages and Films	133	(4)
Rauschenberg: Supply Side Art and Canoeing	137	(2)
Nancy Graves: Translucency	139	(10)
Bill Viola's Simulated Transfiguration	149	(4)
Kevin Clarke: Signs of Loss and Intimacy	153	(4)
Michael Bramwell's ``Conceptual'' Sweeps	157	(4)
Philip Glass: The Photographer	161	(6)
IV. Issues
After the Deluge: The Return of the Inner-Directed Artist	167	(12)
The Spectrum of Object Representation	179	(4)
Where Spectacle Meets Art: Klein's Magnificent Anthropometries	183	(4)
The 1997 Whitney Biennial	187	(4)
West Chelsea: An Experiment in Attitudes and Architecture	191	(4)
The Hugo Boss Prize 1996	195	(4)
Does the Trace Remain? The Situation of the ``International'' Artist Today	199	(4)
The Anti-Aesthetic, Careerism, and Art Schools	203	(4)
Notes	207	(10)
Index	217