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A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945

Amelia Jones (Editor), Dana Arnold (Series Editor)

ISBN: 978-1-4051-0794-5

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648 pages

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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.