{"product_id":"a-companion-to-contemporary-art-since-1945-hardback-9781405107945","title":"A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945 (Hardback) 9781405107945","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAmelia Jones (Edited by), A Jones (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781405107945, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 March 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e648 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 3.2 cm, 1.418 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e represents a move away from the more traditionally conceived broad surveys of contemporary art available to date, and is refreshing in its innovative approach to this complex subject ... essential reading for students and scholars of contemporary art history, visual culture, and visual theory, and general readers just wishing to develop their understanding of this complex subject.\" \u003ci\u003eReference Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Provocative, wide-ranging, and impressively inclusive…a welcome and important addition for the understanding of the art of our historical present and a boon companion for the general reader, the artist, the student, the art historian and the critic alike.” \u003ci\u003eAbigail Solomon-Godeau, University of California, Santa Barbara\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“By keeping its finger on the pulse of the present, while commenting on the recent past, this book reminds us why contemporary art, and contemporary art history, matters.\" \u003ci\u003eGeoffrey Batchen, City University of New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Contemporary Art\u003c\/i\u003e is a major survey covering the major works and movements, the most important theoretical developments, and the historical, social, political, and aesthetic issues in contemporary art since 1945, primarily in the Euro-American context.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eCollects 27 original essays by expert scholars describing the current state of scholarship in art history and visual studies, and pointing to future directions in the field.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains dual chronological and thematic coverage of the major themes in the art of our time: politics, culture wars, public space, diaspora, the artist, identity politics, the body, and visual culture.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers synthetic analysis, as well as new approaches to, debates central to the visual arts since 1945 such as those addressing formalism, the avant-garde, the role of the artist, technology and art, and the society of the spectacle.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeries Editor’s Preface xviii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Introduction 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Writing Contemporary Art into History, a Paradox? 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmelia Jones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Decades 17\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1945–60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 “America” and its Discontents: Art and Politics 1945–60 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGavin Butt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1960–70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The 1960s: A Decade Out-of-Bounds 38\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnna Dezeuze\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1970–80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 “I’m sort of sliding around in place . . . ummm . . .”: Art in the 1970s 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSam Gathercole\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1980–90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Pictures and Positions in the 1980s 83\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHoward Singerman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1990–2005\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 1990–2005: In the Clutches of Time 107\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHenry M. Sayre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Aesthetics 125\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormalism\u003cbr\u003e7 Form and Formless 127\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaroline A. Jones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArt as Idea\u003cbr\u003e8 Re-Thinking the “Duchamp Effect” 145\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Hopkins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeauty\u003cbr\u003e9 Regarding Beauty 164\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMargaret Morgan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Politics 189\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAvant-Garde\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Avant-Garde: A Historiography of a Critical Concept 191\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohanne Lamoureux\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eActivism\u003cbr\u003e11 Facture for Change: US Activist Art since 1950 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJennifer González and Adrienne Posner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCulture Wars\u003cbr\u003e12 “The Senators Were Revolted”: Homophobia and the Culture Wars 231\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonathan D. 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