The Disappearance of Objects: New York Art and the Rise of the Postmodern CityIn the years around 1960, a rapid process of deindustrialization profoundly changed New York City. At the same time, massive highway construction, urban housing renewal, and the growth of the financial sector altered the city’s landscape. As the new economy took shape, manufacturing lofts, piers, and small shops were replaced by sleek high-rise housing blocks and office towers.
Focusing on works by Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Donald Judd, art historian Joshua Shannon shows how New York art engaged with this transformation of the city. Shannon convincingly argues that these four artists---all living amid the changes---filled their art with old street signs, outmoded flashlights, and other discarded objects in a richly revealing effort to understand the economic and architectural transformation of their city. |
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictClaes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Donald Judd-all are iconic names in art history, and each is allowed a chapter's worth of exploration by Shannon (contemporary art history ... Read full review
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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