Themes of Contemporary Art : Visual Art After 1980
ISBN: 9780199797073 | 0199797072
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 6/1/2012
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Offering a unique thematic approach to recent art history,Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980, Third Edition, focuses on eight central ideas recurring in art over the past few decades: identity, the body, time, memory, place, language, science, and spirituality. Featuring 160 vivid illustrations (23 in color and 137 in black and white), this wide-ranging introduction presents artworks that exemplify a wide variety of materials, techniques, theoretical viewpoints, and stylistic approaches, by artists from diverse ethnic, cultural, ... MORE
Preface
Introduction
Themes of Contemporary Art: What, Why, and How
A Brief Orientation
Chapter One: The Art World Expands
Overview of History and Art History, 1980-2011
Traditions Survive, New Trends Arrive
A Spectrum of Voices Emerges
Globalization
Theory Flexes Its Muscles
Social Experience as Art
Art Meets Contemporary Culture
Chapter Two: Identity
Identity in Art History
Identity is Communal or Relational
Identity Politics
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Jean Robertson is Professor of Art History at Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
Craig McDaniel is Associate Dean and Director of Graduate Programs at Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
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