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Art since 1940

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An edition of Art since 1940 (1995)

Art since 1940

strategies of being

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"In Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being, Jonathan Fineberg presents the art of the last six decades of our century as a series of responses, made by exceptional men and women, to the conditions of life in baffling and chaotic times. This Second Edition includes a whole new chapter on the 1990s and augmented sections earlier in the book.".

"The year 1940 marks a defining moment in 20th-century art, when many artists of the European avant-garde moved en masse to New York. The city was instantly transformed into the art capital of the world, triggering radical changes of direction as artists, both immigrant and American-born, struggled with the reshuffled facts of their existence. For these artists, says Fineberg, making art was - as it continues to be for artists today - a strategy of coming to terms with their moment in history.".

"This book helps us understand these "strategies of being" of the greatest postwar artists, and by extension other artists both well-known and little celebrated. Professor Fineberg focuses on artists' lives and how they intersected with broader cultural issues.

Individual artists looked at indepth include Calder, Hofmann, Gorky, Motherwell, de Kooning, Pollock, Newman, Rothko, David Smith, Dubuffet, Giacometti, Bacon, Rauschenberg, Oldenburg, Johns, Beuys, Klein, Warhol, Rosenquist, Westermann, Arneson, Hesse, Nauman, Christo, Polke, Richter, Guston, Bearden, Aycock, Kiefer, Clemente, Borofsky, Basquiat, and Wojnarowicz.".

"Professor Fineberg's thematic discussion treats ideas and events that are critical to understanding how social and cultural climates have affected creative people from the 1940s to the present. The accent is on individual artists and their experience.

Interspersed are fascinating considerations of scores of major tendencies - from the Cobra, art informed, British Pop Art, Bay Area figurative painters in the 1950s, and the artists and writers of the Beat Generation, to the Minimalists, the impact of feminism, minority artists, conceptual art, European neo-expressionism, the East Village of the 1980s, recent artists of appropriation, installation, and the return to the body in the art of the 1990s."--BOOK JACKET.

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Prentice Hall
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English
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496

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Art since 1940
2011, Englewood Cliffs
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art since 1940
2009, Pearson
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Art since 1940: strategies of being
2000, Laurence King Publishing
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Art Since 1940
April 2000, Laurence King Publishing
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Art since 1940: strategies of being
2000, Prentice Hall, H.N. Abrams
in English - 2nd ed
Cover of: Art since 1940
Art since 1940: strategies of being
1995, Prentice Hall
in English
Cover of: Art since 1940
Art since 1940: strategies of being
1995, H.N. Abrams
in English
Cover of: Art since 1940
Art since 1940: strategies of being
1995, Laurence King, Laurence King Publishing
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [474]-480) and index.

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Englewood Cliffs, N.J

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
709/.04/5
Library of Congress
N6512.5.M63 F56 1995

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496 p. :
Number of pages
496

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OL21043962M
ISBN 10
0130454699
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82242

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