A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945

Figures......Page 9
Notes on Contributors......Page 14
Series Editor’s Preface......Page 18
Acknowledgments......Page 19
PART I Introduction......Page 21
1 Introduction: Writing Contemporary Art into History, a Paradox?......Page 23
PART II Decades......Page 37
2 “America” and its Discontents: Art and Politics 1945–60......Page 39
3 The 1960s: A Decade Out-of-Bounds......Page 58
4 “I’m sort of sliding around in place . . . ummm . . .”: Art in the 1970s......Page 80
5 Pictures and Positions in the 1980s......Page 103
6 1990–2005: In the Clutches of Time......Page 127
PART III Aesthetics......Page 145
7 Form and Formless......Page 147
8 Re-Thinking the “Duchamp Effect”......Page 165
9 Regarding Beauty......Page 184
PART IV Politics......Page 209
10 Avant-Garde: A Historiography of a Critical Concept......Page 211
11 Facture for Change: US Activist Art since 1950......Page 232
12 “The Senators Were Revolted”: Homophobia and the Culture Wars......Page 251
13 Crowds and Connoisseurs: Art and the Public Sphere in America......Page 269
PART V Identity/Subjectivity......Page 289
14 The Writerly Artist: Beautiful, Boring, and Blue......Page 291
15 Diaspora: Multiple Practices, Multiple Worldviews......Page 316
16 Power and Pleasure: Feminist Art Practice and Theory in the United States and Britain......Page 337
17 Queer Wallpaper......Page 363
18 Implications of Blackness in Contemporary Art......Page 376
19 The Paradoxical Bodies of Contemporary Art......Page 398
PART VI Methods/Theories......Page 421
20 A Shadow of Marx......Page 423
21 Poststructuralism and Contemporary Art, Past, Present, Future . . .......Page 444
22 “Fragments of Collapsing Space”: Postcolonial Theory and Contemporary Art......Page 470
23 Visual Culture Studies: Questions of History, Theory, and Practice......Page 490
PART VII Technology......Page 511
24 “That’s All Folks”: Contemporary Art and Popular Culture......Page 513
25 Image +Text: Reconsidering Photography in Contemporary Art......Page 532
26 Imagine There’s No Image (It’s Easy If You Try): Appropriation in the Age of Digital Reproduction......Page 554
27 “Life-like”: Historicizing Process and Responsiveness in Digital Art......Page 577
Index......Page 602