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Author:   Michael Bracewell
Publisher:   Art / Books
Imprint:   Art / Books
Weight:   1.140kg
ISBN:  

9781908970558

ISBN 10:   1908970553
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   28 January 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Cool: Great art; cool; My Marilyn; odd pop; Pop; Tom Wolfe; ballrooms versus the ICA • 2. Context: Naturalism; ‘multi-allusive’; British Beat; the Pop age; modernism; postmodernism; ‘the manner of apprehending’; poetic impulse; beauty; brief historical overview; 1986 as the end of the Pop age • 3. Epiphany: Intimacy regulators; Lux; The Large Glass I; imaging James Joyce’s Ulysses • 4. Revolution: Pop age; Swinging London ’67; Unorthodox Rendition; Kent State; the summer of ’68; The Beatles; the whiteness of the White Album; Chicago project; Revolution 1; ‘commodified dissent’ • 5. Women: Marcel Duchamp vs. Goethe; thirtysomething; re Nude; truth and beauty; Fashion-plate (cosmetic studies); Baudelaire; ‘the Scatological Period’; Romantic irony; A Host of Angels; Untitled; question answered • Illustration credits • Acknowledgments • Index

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Michael Bracewell is a British writer, critic and novelist. He writes widely on modern and contemporary art and is a contributor to frieze, The Burlington and Parkett magazines. His recent publications include Richard Hamilton: Late Works (2012); Lucy McKenzie (2013); Damien Hirst: The Complete Psalm Paintings (2014); Kai Althoff (2015); Richard Avedon and Andy Warhol (2016); and What is Gilbert and George? (2017). His selected writings on art, The Space Between, were published in 2012.

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