Main entry:

Luke, Timothy W., author. aut

Title & Author:

Shows of force : power, politics, and ideology in art exhibitions / Timothy W. Luke.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1992.

Description:

x, 250 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index.
George Caleb Bingham : contested ground -- Frederic Remington : riding into the sunset -- Frederic Edwin Church : earth first? -- The West explored : how the West was won, or why is the winning westernized? -- Georgia O'Keeffe : ideology and utopia in the American Southwest -- Frank Lloyd Wright : in the realm of ideas -- American impressionism, California school : "California dreamin'"? -- Japan, the shaping of Daimyo culture, 1185-1868 : the ironies of imperialism in the Empire of Signs -- Made in U.S.A. : "the pride is back"? -- Ilya Kabakov : Soviet life -- Hans Haacke : unfinished business -- Sue Coe : pure war in the zero world -- Hispanic art in the United States : "this is not a barrio" -- Roger Brown : tracing the silhouettes from the shadow of the silent majorities -- Robert Longo : the ecstasy of communication -- Culture and commentary : riding the hoverculture -- The politics of images : art criticism as cultural criticism.

Summary:

"It has long been considered a mark of naïveté to ask of a work of art: What does it say? But as Timothy W. Luke demonstrates in Shows of Force, artwork is capable of saying plenty, and much of the message resides in the way it is exhibited. By critically examining the exhibition of art in contemporary American museums, Luke identifies how art showings are elaborate works of theater that reveal underlying political, social, and economic agendas.The first section, “Envisioning a Past, Imagining the West,” looks at art exhibitions devoted to artworks about or from the American West. Luke shows how these exhibitions—displaying nineteenth- and early-twentieth century works by artists such as George Caleb Bingham, Frederic Remington, Frederic Edwin Church, and Georgia O’Keefe—express contemporary political agendas in the way the portray “the past” and shape new visions of “the West.”In “Developing the Present, Defining a World,” Luke considers artists from the post-1945 era, including Ilya Kabokov, Hans Haacke, Sue Coe, Roger Brown, and Robert Longo. Recent art exhibits, his analysis reveals, attempt to develop politically charged conceptions of the present, which in turn struggle to define the changing contemporary world and art’s various roles within it.Luke brings to light the contradictions encoded in the exhibition of art and, in doing so, illuminates the political realities and cultural ideologies of the present. Shows of Force offers a timely and surely controversial contribution to current discussions of the politics of exhibiting art."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0822311887 (acid-free paper)
9780822311881 (acid-free paper)
0822311232 (pbk.)
9780822311232 (pbk.)

Subject:

Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstausstellung
Art Political aspects.
Art Psychology.
Art Aspect politique.
Art Psychologie.
political art.
20.13 art exhibitions.
Politik
Aufsatzsammlung
Kulturelles System
Kunstausstellung
Kunst.
Politiek.
Ideologie.
Tentoonstellingen.
Art Psychological aspects.
Art United States Exhibitions.
USA
Visual arts Exhibitions Influence of Politics
United States

Form/genre:

works of art.
Art
Books.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Œuvres d'art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 74708
Call No.: ID:92-B2255
Status: Available