Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts

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1. New Games

   Postmodernism After Contemporary Art

   By Pamela M. Lee

   Series: Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts

   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...

   Published November 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. Doubt

   By Richard Shiff

   Series: Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts

   In an age where art history’s questions are now expected to receive answers, Richard Shiff presents a challenging alternative. In this essential new addition to James Elkins’s series Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts, Richard Shiff embraces doubt as a critical tool and asks...

   Published November 25th 2007 by Routledge
3. Ways Around Modernism

   By Stephen Bann

   Series: Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts

   Stephen Bann examines the arguments for the centrality of French modernist painting. He begins by focusing particularly on the notion of the modernist break, as it has been interpreted with regard to painters like Manet and Ingres. He argues that ‘curiosity’, with its origins in the...

   Published December 20th 2006 by Routledge
4. Master Narratives and their Discontents

   By James Elkins

   Series: Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts

   In this bracing engagement with the many versions of art history, James Elkins argues that the story of modernism and postmodernism is almost always told in terms of four narratives. Works of art are either seen as modern or postmodern, or praised for their technical skill or because of the...

   Published August 15th 2005 by Routledge