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A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945

Amelia Jones (Editor), Dana Arnold (Series Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0794-5
Hardcover
648 pages
April 2006, ©2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • Features a grand survey of the historical, social, and aesthetic issues relevant to the development of contemporary art since 1945.
  • Collects 27 original essays by expert scholars describing the current state of scholarship in art history and visual studies, and pointing to future directions in the field.
  • Contains dual chronological and thematic coverage of the major themes in the art of our time: politics, culture wars, public space, diaspora, the artist, identity politics, the body, and visual culture.
  • Offers synthetic analysis, as well as new approaches to, debates central to the visual arts since 1945 such as those addressing formalism, the avant-garde, the role of the artist, technology and art, and the society of the spectacle.
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