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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Robert SlifkinPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press ISBN: 9780691192529ISBN 10: 0691192529 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 05 November 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsRobert Slifkin has written an intellectually compelling and deeply engaged study of an important aspect of postwar American art and culture that has largely been overlooked until now. -Alex Potts, author of Experiments in Modern Realism: World Making, Politics, and the Everyday in Postwar European and American Art After reading this book, no one will be able to understand postwar sculpture's vaunted 'activation of space' in quite the same way. In bracing prose, Slifkin restores its true cultural and political texture as an aerialized space of fear and anticipation, inevitably connected to the spatial effects of advanced weaponry. -Jennifer L. Roberts, author of Mirror-Travels: Robert Smithson and History The New Monuments and the End of Man recovers a group of American sculptors from historical neglect and finds that many of the moves we credit to subsequent artists-such as an ambiguous use of technology, a direct engagement of the viewer, and a bold opening to the environment-belong by rights to them. This is an impressive act of art-historical anamnesis that serves as an important revision of cultural history, radially repositioning both generations of sculptors in terms of period anxieties about military-industrial disaster and nuclear annihilation. -Hal Foster, Princeton University In an ambitious and compelling interpretation of sculpture between the end of WW II and the end of the Vietnam War, Slifkin (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU) examines the expansion of sculptural aesthetic properties, giving renewed attention to the property of monumentalism. Illuminating work ranging from abstract expressionism to land art, the author looks at this work as sharing a sculptural material presence that acknowledged the 'contemporary space and time of the viewer,' and in so doing offered images of a future Utopian or catastrophic in tone. * Choice * Author InformationRobert Slifkin is associate professor of fine arts at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. He is the author of Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art. He lives in New York City. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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