In this collection of critical essays, Barry Schwabsky re-examines the art produced since the 1960s, demonstrating how the achievements of 'high modernism' remain consequential to it, through tensions between representation, abstraction, and pictorial language. Offering close readings of works produced by several generations of European and American artists, he begins with an analysis of the late period of two Abstract Expressionists, Philip Guston and Mark Rothko, who saw their own success as a failure of reception and who ...
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In this collection of critical essays, Barry Schwabsky re-examines the art produced since the 1960s, demonstrating how the achievements of 'high modernism' remain consequential to it, through tensions between representation, abstraction, and pictorial language. Offering close readings of works produced by several generations of European and American artists, he begins with an analysis of the late period of two Abstract Expressionists, Philip Guston and Mark Rothko, who saw their own success as a failure of reception and who came to question radically their own work. With the core of the book focused on Michelangelo Pistoletto and Mel Bochner, major figures of arte povera and conceptual art whose works in a variety of media demonstrate a continuing critical engagement with modernism, Schwabsky also studies the work of artists, such as L. C. Armstrong and Rainer Ganahl, who also continued to examine modernism's legacies.
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Very Good in No d/j as Published jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Type: Book In this collection of critical essays the well-known critic Barry Schwabsky reexamines the art produced since the 1960s, demonstrating how the achievements of "high modernism" remain consequential to it, through tensions among representation, abstraction, and pictorial language. With the core of the book focused on Michelangelo Pistoletto and Mel Bochner, Schwabsky also studies the work of emerging artists who also continue to examine modernism's legacies. 230pp.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 700grams, ISBN: 0521562821.
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New. Trade paperback (US). 252 p. Contemporary Artists and their Critics . Worked examples or Exercises. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
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New. Trade paperback (US). Contains: Unspecified. Contemporary Artists and their Critics . Includes unspecified. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
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Textual photo illustrations. Minor rubbing. VG. xv, 230 pp, 23x15cm, Contents: Abstraction, Representation: The Widening Circle: Abstraction & Representation in Contemporary Art & Criticism; "The Real Situation": Philip Guston & Mark Rothko at the End of the 1960s; Norman Bluhm & the Eternal Feminine; Color Field & Caro: Mannerist Modernism; Larry Poons: Formalism in the Ruins; Gesture Revisited: Mel Bochner, Howard Buchwald, Brice Marden; Mary Heilman's Ceramics & Paintings: Color as Substance; Porfirio DiDonna: Vision Fulfilled; Moira Dryer: Answering Machines; The Rustle of Painting: Jacques Lacan, David Row, Brenda Zlamany; Italian Interlude: W de Pliss; Rotellascope; Michelangelo Pistoletto: Mirrors to Monuments; The Abstraction Epidemic: A Conversation with Demetrio Paparoni; And Inscription: Thomas Chimes: Concerting the Surface: Cy Twombly: Et in Arcadia Ego? Bruce Conner's Inkblot Drawings: Documents for a Secret Tradition; Reverse Continuity: The Prints of Mel Bochner; Rubble: Representing Mel Bochner's Early Work; Ross Bleckner: Memories of Light; L.C. Armstrong: Written on the Skin; Rainer Ganahl: Windows on the Word.
