The Disappearance of Objects: New York Art and the Rise of the Postmodern CityClaes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Donald Juddall are iconic names in art history, and each is allowed a chapter's worth of exploration by Shannon (contemporary art history theory, Univ. of Maryland), who manages to surprise us into remembering that these people were grappling with their environment and working to understand the modern urban landscape. See, for example, the photo of Johns and Rauschenberg in Rauschenberg's home. They look like two young men camped out in a cheap flat somewhere in the present day, smoking, having a drink, and talking philosophy. Yet, they were making great strides in using their art, as Shannon argues, to understand how and why "all that was once directly lived has become mere representation," eventually revealing the "inadequacy of language itself." New York City was disappearing all around them, as faceless monoliths of modern glass and steel replaced treasured places where people had lived and died. Theirs was a time of rapid change, and these themes still persist today.Nadine Dalton, Speidel Cuyahoga Cty. P.L., Parma, OH Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
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Contents
A NeoDada City | 19 |
The Disappearance of Objects | 59 |
Black Market | 93 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Disappearance of Objects: New York Art and the Rise of the Postmodern City |
| Author | Joshua Shannon |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Yale University Press, 2009 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Dec 8, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0300137060, 9780300137064 |
| Length | 232 pages |
| Subjects | › › Art / History / Contemporary (1945-) |
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