Themes in Contemporary ArtGillian Perry, Paul Wood Addresses a fascinating variety of themes relating to art from the 1960s to the end of the century, the period of “postmodernism.” The first of the book’s seven chapters deals with the emergence in the 1960s of what has been called an “expanded field” for art activity. Other chapters discuss the consequences of Conceptual art for notions of the aesthetic the Post-Conceptual practice of painting practices of Post-Conceptual photography video, performance, and installation art and women’s practice and the question of gendered and nongendered objects. The final chapter explores the globalization of art at the end of the twentieth century. |
