Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation

New York and Boston: New Museum of Contemporary Art; David R. Godine, Publisher, 1984. xviii, 461 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. "The waning of the century-old modernist movement in the arts has called forth an astonishing array of artistic and critical responses. The twenty-five essays in Art After Modernism provide a comprehensive survey of the most provocative directions taken by recent art and criticism, exploring such topics as the decline of the ideology of modernism in the arts and the emergence of a wide range of postmodern practices; recent directions in painting, film, video, and imagery; and the dynamics of the social network in which art is produced and disseminated. This major collection is an indispensable guide to the ideas and issues animating this decade's art--the far-reaching cultural reorientation known as postmodernism." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Introduction, by Brian Wallis. IMAGE-AUTHOR-CRITIQUE: Pierre Menard: author of the Quixote, by Jorge Luis Borges; The originality of the avant-garde: a postmodern repetition, by Rosalind Krauss; Realism for the cause of future revolution, by Kathy Acker. DISMANTLING MODERNISM: The rise of Andy Warhol, by Robert Hughes; After avant-garde film, by J. Hoberman; Photography after art photography, by Abigail Solomon-Godeau; Re-viewing modernist criticism, by Mary Kelly. PAROXYSMS OF PAINTING: Figures of authority, ciphers or regression, by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh; Flak from the "radicals": the American case against German painting, by Donald B. Kuspit; Last exit: painting, by Thomas Lawson. THEORIZING POSTMODERNISM: From work to text, by Roland Barthes; Pictures, by Douglas Crimp; Re: post, by Hal Foster; The allegorical impulse: toward a theory of postmodernism, by Craig Owens. THE FICTIONS OF MASS MEDIA: Progress versus Utopia ; or, Can we imagine the future?, by Fredric Jameson; The precession of simulacra, by Jean Baudrillard; Eclipse of the spectacle, by Jonathan Crary. CULTURAL POLITICS: The author as producer, by Walter Benjamin; Lookers, buyers, dealers, and makers: thoughts on audience, by Martha Rosler; Trojan horses: activist art and power, by Lucy R. Lippard. GENDER-DIFFERENCE-POWER: Visual pleasure and narrative cinema, by Laura Mulvey; "A certain refusal of difference": feminist film theory, by Constance Penley; Representation and sexuality, by Kate Linker; The subject and power, by Michel Foucault. . Paperback. Fine. 8vo.