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History painting reassessed : the representation of history in contemporary art / edited by David Green and Peter Seddon.

Contributor(s): Green, David, 1953 May 23- | Seddon, Peter.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2000Description: ix, 162 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0719051681.Subject(s): Art and history | Narrative painting | History in art | Painting, EuropeanDDC classification: 758.99
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Queer exceptions is a study of contemporary solo performance in the UK and Western Europe that explores the contentious relationship between identity, individuality and neoliberalism. With diverse case studies featuring the work of La Ribot, David Hoyle, Oreet Ashery, Bridget Christie, Tanja Ostojic, Adrian Howells and Nassim Soleimanpour, the book examines the role of singular or 'exceptional' subjects in constructing and challenging assumed notions of communal sociability and togetherness, while drawing fresh insight from the fields of sociology, gender studies and political philosophy to reconsider theatre's attachment to singular lives and experiences. Framed by a detailed exploration of arts festivals as encapsulating the material, entrepreneurial circumstances of contemporary performance-making, this is the first major critical study of solo work since the millennium.

Includes bibliographical references.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • David Green & Peter Seddon
  • Stuck in the Post?
  • Jonathan Harris
  • From History Painting to the History of Painting and Back Again
  • David Green
  • A Death of History or a History of Death
  • Oriana Baddeley
  • History Painting West and East
  • Brandon Taylor
  • From Eschatology to Ecology
  • Peter Seddon
  • History, Allegory Technologies of Vision
  • Joanna Lowry
  • Memory's Touch
  • Jon Bird
  • Women, Subjects, Objects and the End of History (Painting)
  • Katy Deepwell
  • History Painting
  • Painting and Expressionism
  • Terry Atkinson

Author notes provided by Syndetics

David Green is Senior Lecturer in History and Theory of Contemporary Art at Brighton University.

Peter Seddon is Deputy Head of the School of Arts and Communication at Brighton University.