Since 1950 : art and its criticism / Charles Harrison with a preface by Alex Potts.

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Harrison, Charles, 1942-2009.

Title & Author:

Since 1950 : art and its criticism / Charles Harrison with a preface by Alex Potts.

Publication:

Description:

x, 262 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sculpture's recent past -- On writing about -- Ben Nicholson and the decline of cubism -- Roger Hilton : the obligation to express -- 'Englishness' and 'modernism' revisited -- The power of modernism -- Feeling the earth move -- A place of work : conceptual art as realist practice? -- Drawing : competence and incompetence -- Keeping up -- Virtual iconoclasm and real expansion -- Complexity and disinterest.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"This is an original and incisive contribution to the discussion of modern and postmodern art and of the theories by which it has been influenced and explained, from someone who has been closely involved in the art of this period as practitioner, teacher, critic, and historian.
In a series of compelling and finely argued essays, Charles Harrison offers an acute analysis of the seismic shift that took place when the modernist formalism that had underpinned thinking about art in the first half of the century came to be seen as a spent force. Harrison's principal concern is with the circumstances and consequences of that shift - in thought about art, and in criticism. He asks how the diverse art of this period is to be understood and on what basis judgments are to be made about the merits and importance of specific works."--pub. desc.

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ISBN:

9780300151862 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0300151861 (hbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Harrison, Charles 1942-2009
Art, Modern 19th century Philosophy.
Art, Modern 20th century Philosophy.
Art 19e siècle Philosophie.
Art 20e siècle Philosophie.
Art, Modern Philosophy.
Kunstkritik
Modern konst 1800-talet 1900-talet.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Potts, Alex

Art and its criticism

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266232
Call No.: BIB 197902
Status: Available

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