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Transitions. From Modern to Contemporary Art. Critical Approaches. |
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Authors: |
Karaba, Elpida Papastamou, Valia |
Reviewer: |
Gerogianni, Irini |
Subject: | HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > SPECIALIZED HISTORIES > HISTORY OF ART HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > ARTS > ART HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > ARTS > ART > WORKS OF ART HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > ARTS > ART STYLES HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > ARTS > ART STYLES > CONTEMPORARY ART HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > ARTS > ART STYLES > MODERN ART HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > ARTS > ART THEORY HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > ARTS > ARTISTIC MOVEMENTS > MODERNISM (ART) |
Keywords: |
Art History
Theory of art Post-war art Contemporary art Modern Art Abstract Art Pop Art Conceptual Art Performance art Institutional critique Postmodernism Politics of the lens Photography Video art New media art Digital art Site-specific art Relational aesthetics Public art |
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Abstract: |
As its title suggests, the subject of the book "Transitions. From modern to contemporary art. Critical Approaches", is the critical narrative of the passage from modern to contemporary art, approaching the continuities, discontinuities, ruptures, expansions, and reversals that shaped art after the second half of the 20th century and the passage into the 21st century. The chapters in the volume are structured as nodes or focal points, rather than themes or thematic categories. In some cases, they focus on movements or the dominance of a medium that reflects a range of practices (such as photography or video art), while elsewhere they focus on broad categories in which media intersect. This constitutes a narrative of the passage from modern to contemporary art and the expansions needed to write their histories while highlighting the difficulties and challenges that arise from these expansions. The chapters follow a roughly chronological trajectory, from abstraction as a landmark of the post-war period, minimalism and conceptual art, institutional critique, pop art and neo-avant-garde, performance art, postmodernism, photography and the politics of the lens, video art, digital and new media art forms, to new genre public art. In these difficult categorizations, certain questions arise concerning their criteria: based on the medium, category, genre, movement, or the interweaving of the above. Each chapter presents significant events, an influential theory, a study, the publication of an important text, or the opening of an exhibition that played a role in the production and reception of the works and practices discussed. Critical considerations of seminal events aim for a multilevel approach via the study of works, discourses, texts, exhibition practices, and theories. Through this trajectory, the study traces the categories of "artist", "work", "exhibition", "viewer", and "curator" and the shifts in their conceptualization from the 20th to the 21st century. This book is a useful tool at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as it takes a chronological approach to present art movements, currents, trends, and theories while offering a genealogical critical perspective on the formation and transformation of media, forms, and categories (genres) of artistic practice that constitute a critical introduction to contemporary art. The book proposes a view of developments in art from the second half of the twentieth century to the twenty-first century, but also an immersion in the key points of developments and different perceptions of modern and contemporary art.
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Linguistic Editors: |
Klada, Nektaria |
Graphic Editors: |
Triantafyllakos, George |
Type: |
Undergraduate textbook |
Creation Date: | 26-06-2023 |
Item Details: | |
ISBN |
978-618-228-035-5 |
License: |
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) |
DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-269 |
Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/9830 |
Bibliographic Reference: | Karaba, E., & Papastamou, V. (2023). Transitions. From Modern to Contemporary Art. Critical Approaches. [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-269 |
Language: |
Greek |
Consists of: |
1. Art after 1945. Abstraction as prevalent in post-war, post-traumatic aesthetics 2. Art and the everyday. Variations of pop art and neo-avant-garde as critical iteration 3. The field of minimalism as a critical controversy 4. Conceptual art. The dematerialisation of art (and then the dematerialisation of -artistic-labour) 5. Live art, body art, performance art 6. The category of institutional critique. "The museum as a battlefield" 7. The contested postmodernism and the liminal 1990s 8. Photography and the politics of the lens 9. From video art to new media art, digital art, tactical media art and the post-medium condition 10. Art and public space. From site-specific art to the "(un)sitting" of the community. Relational aesthetics and its discontents |
Number of pages |
266 |
Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |
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