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OverviewThe book was awarded The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Book Prize in 2010. Art continues to bemuse and confuse many people today. Yet, its critical analyses are saturated with daunting analyses of contemporary art’s exhaustion, its predictability or its absorption into global commercial culture. In this book, the author seeks to clarify this apprehensive perception of art. He argues it is a consequence not only of confounding art-works, but also of the paradoxical impetus of a culture of modernity. By positively reassessing the perplexing or apprehensive features of cultural modernity as well as of aesthetic inquiry, this book redefines the ambitions of art in the wake of this legacy. In the process, it challenges many familiar approaches to art inquiry in order to offer a new understanding of the aesthetic, social and cultural aspirations of art in our time. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Andrew McNamaraPublisher: Verlag Peter Lang Imprint: Verlag Peter Lang Edition: New edition Weight: 0.420kg ISBN: 9783039117208ISBN 10: 3039117203 Pages: 294 Publication Date: 08 June 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents: The Perplexity of a Culture of Modernity - Wondrous Objectivity: art history, Freud and detection - Duchamp: creativity is a form of onanism - The medium of modernism - Love, identification and confrontation within modernity - Confrontation and Legacies: Gerhard Richter's barbed portrait - Illegible echoes - Felix Gonzalez-Torres, the artist-spy.ReviewsAuthor InformationThe Author: Andrew McNamara is an Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. He has published on art history, aesthetics, modernism and contemporary art in both Europe and the United States. With Ann Stephen and Philip Goad, he produced a major appraisal of the reception of modernism in Australia, Modernism & Australia: Documents on Art, Design and Architecture 1917-1967 (2006) and Modern Times: The Unwritten History of Modernism in Australia (2008). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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