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Examines contemporary art from its roots to the present day
Art Since 1980: Charting the Contemporary presents a chronological survey from the late 20th century into the early 21st century. This title is built around short discussions on individual artists. Author Peter Kalb maintains a balance between a social history of institutions and contexts, and attention to individual aesthetic choices. Works cited come from these fields: painting, photography, and sculpture, plus installation, performance, and video art.
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Review
“The writing is clear, artists are well chosen, and the chapter organization is logical. . . . The author strikes an admirable balance between a social history of institutions and contexts, and attention to individual aesthetic choices.”
-Bill Anthes, Pitzer College
“A quite complete and detailed survey of contemporary art, that . . . goes into substantial detail on a number of world contemporary artists.”
-Ellen Hoobler, Columbia University
“A good overview of late twentieth-century art, organized thematically and built of short discussions of individual artists. The way that the text is primarily organized around short discussions of individual artists or organizations is effective."
-Sarah Hollenberg, University of Utah
“Excellent research; great insights and surprisingly comprehensive.”
-Doreen Maloney, University of Kentucky
Synopsis
Examines contemporary art from its roots to the present day
Art Since 1980: Charting the Contemporary presents a chronological survey from the late 20th century into the early 21st century. This title is built around short discussions on individual artists. Author Peter Kalb maintains a balance between a social history of institutions and contexts, and attention to individual aesthetic choices. Works cited come from these fields: painting, photography, and sculpture, plus installation, performance, and video art.
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About the Author
Peter R. Kalb is the Cynthia L. and Theodore S. Berenson Professor of Contemporary Art at Brandeis University where he teaches modern and contemporary art history. Before preparing Art Since 1980 he was the revising author of the Fifth Edition of H.H. Arnason History of Modern Art and the author of High Drama: The New York Cityscapes of Georgia O’Keeffe and Margaret Bourke-White. His scholarship addresses issues in twentieth- and twenty-first-century art and criticism and he serves as the Boston-based corresponding editor for Art in America.
Table of Contents
In this section:
1) Brief Table of Contents
2) Detailed Table of Contents
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1. Discovering the Contemporary
Chapter 2. Taking Pictures: Appropriation and Its Consequences
Chapter 3. Back to the Easel: Neo-Expressionism and the Return of Painting
Chapter 4. Into the Streets
Chapter 5. Commodities and Consumerism
Chapter 6. Memory and History
Chapter 7. Culture, Body, Self
Chapter 8. Eastward Expansion: Contemporary Art in Russia and China
Chapter 9. Engaging the Global Present
Chapter 10. New Metaphors and New Narratives
Chapter 11. The Art of Contemporary Experience
DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
The Beginnings of Contemporaneity and the Object of Its Critique
Clement Greenberg: Objects of Concern
Beginning the Contemporary
Exhibitions and the Art Market
Narrative and Methods
Chapter 1. Discovering the Contemporary
New Movements and the New Metaphors
Institutional Critique
African-American Critiques
Feminist Statements
Chapter 2. Taking Pictures: Appropriation and Its Consequences
Power on Display
Identity and the Gaze
Spaces of Action
Chapter 3. Back to the Easel: Neo-Expressionism and the Return of Painting
“A New Spirit in Painting”
The United States
Italy
Germany
Epilogue, Addenda, Errata
Chapter 4. Into the Streets
The East Village and the Alternative Scene
Art in the Community
From Marked Territory to the Mass Media
Chapter 5. Commodities and Consumerism
Market Forces
Signs and Abstractions
Commodity and Form in Europe
The Internationalism of Commodity Art
Chapter 6. Memory and History
Memorializing War
African-American Histories
Art Histories and Civil Wars
Chapter 7. Culture, Body, Self
Body as Form and Content
Changing Strategies: Body as Social Medium
Too Close: Personal Lives and Artistic Practices
Embodying Abstraction
Beyond the “I”
Chapter 8. Eastward Expansion: Contemporary Art in Russia and China
Russia
China
Chapter 9. Engaging the Global Present
Cuban Experiments
Mapping the Global Present
Youth Culture as a Measure of Global Change?
Imaging the Global Economy
Nodes on the Global Network: Israel and Palestine
Chapter 10. New Metaphors and New Narratives
Relearning to Paint
Space and Sculpture
The Power of Fiction
Narrativity 2.0
Chapter 11. The Art of Contemporary Experience
The Experience of Experience
Experience Observed
Mass Media, Personal Experience, and Politics