Overview

Concentrating on the shifting boundaries and definition of art, Richard Kalina offers a panoramic view of the contemporary art scene over the last 30 years. His focus is on the ongoing development of concepts, the transformation of art worlds and the social matrices in which they are created. Discussing painting in general and abstract painting in particular, his survey takes in photorealism, sculpture and art forms found outside of the modernist tradition. Kalina's group of artists includes Mel Bochner, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, Franz West, and Alma Thomas who, in their ongoing projects, explicitly or implicitly questioned the aesthetic assumptions of their times. Merging an examination of animating philosophies and context - political, social, and personal - with a sharply focused look at the works of art themselves, Kalina brings us closer to understanding the social matrices in which art is embedded and responds to bigger questions about the object nature of the work of art in today’s world.

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Author:   Richard Kalina (Fordham University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9781350154735

ISBN 10:   1350154733
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   01 July 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgements Copyright Credits Introduction Figures 1. Real Dead 2. Al Held 3. In Another Light 4. The Reality of Abstraction 5. The Uncomfortable Armchair: Abstraction and Decoration 6. Wandering Color: Arbitrariness, Disjunction, and Decoration in American Art of the Sixties 7. The Rutgers Group: Garden State Avant-Garde 8. Expressing the Abstract 9. Gees Bend Modern 10. Excerpts from Imagining the Present: Context, Content and the Role of the Critic 11. Ab-Ex Confidential: The Way They Were 12. Martin Ramirez: Narratives of Displacement and Memory 13. The Dream of Aboriginal Art 14. The Guardians of the Avant-Garde 15. Robert Morris: The Order of Disorder 16. West of Eden 17. Harmony & Discord 18. The Four Corners of Painting 19. Talk/Show: Language and the Resistant Artwork 20. Stop, Look and Listen! Mel Bochner Strong Language 21. Through Color 22. Hold Still: Looking at Photo-Realism 23. The Here and Then 24. Art Between Form and Anti-Form 25. Frames and Personas 26. Inside Outsider 27. The Unusual Suspects: A View of Abstraction Index

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For over 30 years, artist and critic Richard Kalina has asked his readers to look beyond artworld rhetoric for authenticity and value in our ever-changing visual landscape. This selection of essays traces key developments and A-list artists, while foregrounding influences and individuals on the margins of accepted artworld practices. * Rene Paul Barilleaux, Head of Curatorial Affairs, McNay Art Museum, United States *

Author Information

Richard Kalina is Professor of Art at Fordham University, USA. He is the Editor of Imagining the Present: Context, Content, and the Role of the Critic (2006) and a Contributing Editor to the monthly magazine Art in America.

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