1st Edition

New Games Postmodernism After Contemporary Art

By Pamela M. Lee Copyright 2013
288 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

Pamela M. Lee’s New Games revisits postmodernism in light of art history's more recent embrace of "the contemporary." What can the theories and practices associated with postmodernism tell us about the obsession with the contemporary in both the academy and the art world? In looking at work by Dara Birnbaum, Öyvind Fahlström and Richard Serra, among others, Lee returns to Jean-Francois... Read more

Foreword by Johanna Burton.  Introduction: Postmodernism, an Incomplete Project.  Chapter 1: Postmodernism after "The Contemporary".  Chapter 2: New Games.  Chapter 3: Game Show.  Conclusion: Mixed Hopes, Mixed Strategies.  Seminar.  Index.

Biography

Pamela M. Lee is Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. She is the author of Object to be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark (1999) and Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s (2004).