Smith, Terry (Terry E.)
Upper Saddle River [N.J.] : Prentice Hall, c2011.
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Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- General introduction: Contemporary Art in transition: from Late Modern Art to now. — I. Becoming contemporary in Euroamerica. Late Modern Art becomes contemporary — Transformations in Late Modern Art: its contemporary aspects — Situationism, Gutai, happenings: art into life-life into art — Pop: the social mirror, refracted — The object materialized: Minimalism — Earthworks: extending sculpture’s field — Conceptualism: reconceiving art — Political interventions: direct democracy, body, self, sexuality — 1. The Contemporary Art boom. — The postmodern return to figuration — The two Germanys — Trauma of the victimized — The Italian transavantgarde — The American scene again — British schools — Critical Postmodernism — Retro-sensational Art — Remodernism in sculpture and photography — Big photography — Spectacle architecture as Contemporary Art — Contemporary Art becomes a style — II. The transnational transition. Introduction — 3. Russia and (East of) Europe — Russia — Art under Late Socialism — Russian Art becomes Contemporary — Late Cold War Modern Art elsewhere (East of) Europe — Parodies of official imagery — Performance Art tests the limits — Czechoslovakia — Hungary — The Baltic nations — After the Fall: Post-Communist Art? — Romania — The breakup of Yugoslavia — Beyond Eastern and Central versus Western Europe — Translating the European ideal — 4. South and Central America, the Caribbean — South America — Argentina — Brazil — Colombia — Chile — Mexico — Cuba — Elsewhere in the Caribbean — Seeing the world’s currents –
- 5. China and East Asia — China — Modern Chinese Art — Contemporary Chinese Art — Taiwan — Japan — Experimental Art in the 1950s to 1970s — Contemporary Art — Korea — 6. India, South and Southeast Asia — India — Pakistan — Thailand — Indonesia — The Philippines — 7. Oceania — Papua New Guinea — Aotearoa / New Zealand — Australia — 8. Africa. — Modern Art in Africa — South Africa under Apartheid — Popular painting and sculpture in Central Africa — Commercial to Art Photography — South Africa after Apartheid — African Art enters the international circuit — 9. West Asia. Iraq — Jordan — Iran — Palestine — Israel — From Hurufiyah to Contemporary Cosmopolitanism — III. Contemporary concerns. Introduction — 10. World pictures: making Art politcally — One world — Global networks — Intervening critically — Profiles in Shadowland — Bare labor — 11. Climate change: Art and Ecology. — Art and Environmentalism — Crisis and catastrophe — Collective actions, sustainable solutions — Designs for living — Experimental geography — Imaging the future Dystopia — Eco-chic, greenwashing, spectacle — 12. Social media: affects of time. Mediation, immersion, intervention, agency — To be with time is all we ask — 13. Coda: Permanent transition.
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