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Art after modernism : rethinking representation / edited and with an introduction by Brian Wallis ; foreword by Marcia Tucker.

Contributor(s): Wallis, Brian, 1953-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Documentary sources in contemporary art ; [v. 1].Publisher: New York ; Boston : New Museum of Contemporary Art ; David R. Godine, 1992Description: xviii, 461p. : ill., ports. ; 24cm.ISBN: 0879236329.Subject(s): Postmodernism | Arts, Modern -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 700.904
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The waning of the century-old modernist movement in the arts has called forth an array of artistic and critical responses. The 25 essays in this text provide a survey of the most provocative directions taken by art and criticism in the postmodern age.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-445) and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Foreword (p. vii)
  • What's Wrong with This Picture? an Introduction (p. xi)
  • I Image / Author / Critique (p. 1)
  • Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (p. 3)
  • The Originality of the Avant-Garde: a Postmodernist Repetition (p. 13)
  • Realism for the Cause of Future Revolution (p. 31)
  • Ii Dismantling Modernism (p. 43)
  • The Rise of Andy Warhol (p. 45)
  • After Avant-Garde Film (p. 59)
  • Photography After Art Photography (p. 75)
  • Re-Viewing Modernist Criticism (p. 87)
  • Iii Paroxysms of Painting (p. 105)
  • Figures of Authority, Ciphers of Regression (p. 107)
  • Flak from the "Radicals": the American Case Against Current German Painting (p. 137)
  • Last Exit: Painting (p. 153)
  • Iv Theorizing Postmodernism (p. 167)
  • From Work to Text (p. 169)
  • Pictures (p. 175)
  • Re Post (p. 189)
  • The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism (p. 203)
  • V the Fictions of Mass Media (p. 237)
  • Progress Versus Utopia; Or, Can We Imagine the Future? (p. 239)
  • The Precession of Simulacra (p. 253)
  • Eclipse of the Spectacle (p. 283)
  • Vi Cultural Politics (p. 295)
  • The Author as Producer (p. 297)
  • Lookers, Buyers, Dealers, and Makers: Thoughts on Audience (p. 311)
  • Trojan Horses: Activist Art and Power (p. 341)
  • Vii Gender / Difference / Power (p. 359)
  • Vi sual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (p. 361)
  • "A Certain Refusal of Difference": Feminism and Film Theory (p. 375)
  • Representation and Sexuality (p. 391)
  • The Subject and Power (p. 417)
  • Bibliography (p. 435)
  • Index (p. 447)
  • Contributors (p. 460)