This volume is an introduction to the intellectual movement known as Postmodernism and its impact on the visual arts. In clear, jargon-free language, Eleanor Heartney situates Postmodernism historically, showing how it developed both in reaction to and as a result of some of the fundamental beliefs underlying Modernism, especially its positivist, universalizing aspects. She then analyzes paradigmatic Postmodern works of art by artists such as Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, Jeff Koons and Robert Mapplethorpe. Postmodernism provides a concise and articulate overview of the Postmodern phenomenon. Eleanor Heartney is a contributing editor for Art in America, New Art Examiner, and Art Press. In 1991, she was the recipient of the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism. Heartney is a board member of the American section of the AICA. She is also the author of Critical Condition: American Culture at the Crossroads (Cambridge, 1997). She lives in New York.
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This volume is an introduction to the intellectual movement known as Postmodernism and its impact on the visual arts. In clear, jargon-free language, Eleanor Heartney situates Postmodernism historically, showing how it developed both in reaction to and as a result of some of the fundamental beliefs underlying Modernism, especially its positivist, universalizing aspects. She then analyzes paradigmatic Postmodern works of art by artists such as Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, Jeff Koons and Robert Mapplethorpe. Her text provides a concise and articulate overview of the Postmodern phenomenon.
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Around 1980, the American art press, which had been prone to dour ruminations on the death of painting, was suddenly galvanised by the emergence of a group of brash young male painters. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Around 1980, the American art press, which had been prone to dour ruminations on the death of painting, was suddenly galvanised by the emergence of a group of brash young male painters. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
commodity critique, postmodern feminism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gerhard Richter, Guerrilla Girls, East Germany, Jenny Holzer, South African New!
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- Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series by John Berger on page 52, and Back Matter
- Course in General Linguistics (Open Court Classics) by Ferdinand de Saussure in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Laurie Simmons by Sarah Charlesworth on page 56, and page 57
- Don Quixote (English Picture Readers) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra on page 38
- The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Theory and History of Literature, Volume 10) by Jean-Francois Lyotard in Back Matter
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