The waning of the century-old modernist movement in the arts has called forth an astonishing array of artistic and critical responses. The twenty-five essays in Art After Modernism provide a comprehensive survey of the most provocative directions taken by recent art and criticism, exploring such topics as the decline of the ideology of modernism in the arts and the emergence of a wide range of postmodern practices; recent directions in painting, film, video and photography; visual artists' investigations of mass-media systems and imagery; and the dynamics of the social network in which art is produced and disseminated. This major collection is an indespensable guide to the ideas and issues animating this decade's art the far-reaching cultural reorientation known as postmodernism.
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"Wallis has fashioned an open intellectual forum that provides an important critical framework for understanding the art of our time." --Artforum
"[C]learly the single most useful and provocative document on its subject yet published. . ." --Artweek
"One of this book's many virtues is its incitement to hard thinking, its persistent scraping away of naive myths clustered around the art-making enterprise." --The Village Voice
"[C]learly the single most useful and provocative document on its subject yet published. . ." --Artweek
"One of this book's many virtues is its incitement to hard thinking, its persistent scraping away of naive myths clustered around the art-making enterprise." --The Village Voice
"[C]learly the single most useful and provocative document on its subject yet published. . ." --Artweek
"One of this book's many virtues is its incitement to hard thinking, its persistent scraping away of naive myths clustered around the art-making enterprise." --The Village Voice
"[C]learly the single most useful and provocative document on its subject yet published. . ." --Artweek
"One of this book's many virtues is its incitement to hard thinking, its persistent scraping away of naive myths clustered around the art-making enterprise." --The Village Voice
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Great essays, but high redundancy rate for anyone who already owns a postmodern anthology,
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This review is from: Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation (Art Criticism and Theory) (Paperback)
Art After Modernism is a nice collection of postmodern/poststructural essays from some important theorists such as Barthes, Foucault, Foster, Hughes, Jameson, Mulvey, and others. My problem is that almost all (if not, indeed, everyone single one) of these essays are available elsewhere. I believe almost everything here is also represented in the far superior Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Now many anthologies do we need of Laura Mulvey's "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"? It's a great essay, but it's in EVERY anthology and she DID write other essays.
It seems that every collection wants to represent the fundamental texts - the widely influential articles that everyone should know. That's great, but it's already been done and done better than this. I cannot see what is unique about this collection. While it's about half the price of the Norton anthology, it's less than a quarter of the size of the Norton and without the copious editorial comments and clarifications. The theme is ostensibly "Art After Modernism", but isn't that just another way of saying "postmodernism"? These essays are no more specific to art than any other collection of postmodern theory and aesthetics. There are a few essays that deal with "rethinking representation", but the majority are simply the core of postmodern texts. There's really nothing unique here. If you don't already own essays such as Baudrillard's "The procession of the simulacra" or Barthes' "From work to text", I suppose this is worth its price, but I would recommend spending a little more money and stepping up to something more comprehensive. The essays themselves = Five Stars ***** Whoever decided we needed yet another redundant collection = Zero Stars
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