Signifying Art: Essays on Art After 1960 Contributor(s): Welish, Marjorie (Author) |
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ISBN: 052163301X ISBN-13: 9780521633017 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $127.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1999 Annotation: A study of the work of a generation of 'respondents' to the New York School. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Art | Criticism & Theory - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) |
Dewey: 709.730 |
LCCN: 99014189 |
Series: Contemporary Artists and Their Critics |
Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6" W x 9" (1.46 lbs) 336 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1960's - Chronological Period - 1970's - Chronological Period - 1980's - Chronological Period - 1990's - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - New York |
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Publisher Description: Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960 considers the work of a generation of "respondants" to the New York School, including Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly, who reintroduced pictorialism and verbal content in their paintings and assemblages. Their work, Marjorie Welish argues, often alludes to the history of art and culture. Also examined are the works of Minimal and Conceptual artists, particularly Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt, who sought to make objective and theoretical artifacts in response to the subjectivity that Abstract Expressionism had promoted. By interpreting the work of these artists in light of contemporary issues, Welish offers a fresh reevaluation of some of the major trends and production of postwar American painting. |