The widening circle
consequences of modernism in contemporary art
by Barry Schwabsky
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In this collection of critical essays, Barry Schwabsky reexamines the art produced since the 1960s, demonstrating how the achievements of "high modernism" remain consequential to it, through tensions between representation, abstraction, and language.
Offering close readings of works produced by several generations of European and American artists, he begins with an analysis of the late period of two Abstract Expressionists, Philip Guston and Mark Rothko, who saw their own success as a failure of reception and who came to question radically their own work. With the core of the book focused on Michelangelo Pistoletto and Mel Bochner, major figures of Arte Povera and Conceptual Art whose works in a variety of media demonstrate a deepening critical engagement with modernism, Schwabsky also studies the work of emerging artists, such as L. C.
Amrstrong and Rainer Ganahl, who continue to examine modernism's legacies.
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The widening circle: consequences of modernism in contemporary art
1997, Cambridge University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-226) and index.
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