Sculpture in the age of doubt /
McEvilley, Thomas, 1939-2013
Sculpture in the age of doubt / Thomas McEvilley. - viii, 439 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Aesthetics today . - Aesthetics today. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-424) and index.
The art of doubting -- Sculpture, painting, and the post-modern reversal of values -- Duchamp, pyrrhonism, and the overthrow of the Kantian tradition -- Another alphabet: the art of Marcel Broodthaers -- The rightness of wrongness: modernism and its alter ego in the work of Dennis Oppenheim -- The art of Jannis Kounellis -- Mute prophecies (1986) -- Winnowing fan on his shoulder?: Kounnellis's voyage (1995) -- Intimate but lethal things: the art of Lucas Samaras -- Negative presences in secret spaces: the art of Eric Orr -- Medicine man: proposing a context for Wolfgang Laib's work -- The serpent in the stone: Marina Abramovic's sculpture -- Your flowers as my hair: the art of Michael Tracy -- Seeds of the future: Antony Gormley's Field -- Anish Kapoor: the darkness inside a stone -- Skywriting: the work of Marinus Boezem -- Louise Bourgeois: "the she wolf is my mother" -- Explicating exfoliation in the work of Mel Chin -- "Perfect things move in circles": the sculpture of James Lee Byars -- Basic dichotomies in Meret Oppenheim's work -- Location and space in the Kienholz world -- Jana Sterbak: materials and their truth -- Tony Cragg: landscape artist -- Francesc Torres: the man with three brains -- Elaine Reichek: sins of the fathers -- Leonardo Drew: the great migration -- "Nothing behind it": the sculpture of Gerhard Merz -- In the form of a thistle: the work of Dove Bradshaw -- Reassembling the pieces: the sculpture of James Croak.
"Framed in a lucid discussion of the intellectual issues surrounding the postmodern movement, the essays in this book re-examine the course of twentieth-century art through the work of twenty-five major sculptors. McEvilley masterfully traces the evolution of modern sculpture from the readymades of Marcel Duchamp to the anti-painting statements of the 1960s to the spiritualism and conceptualism of the 1980s and 1990s. This is a groundbreaking work in the field of art criticism and a fundamental text for anyone interested in the history of current art and culture."--Publisher description.
1581150237 9781581150230
98074535
Sculpture, Modern--20th century
Postmodernism.
NB198.5.P66 / M37 1999
735.23
Sculpture in the age of doubt / Thomas McEvilley. - viii, 439 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Aesthetics today . - Aesthetics today. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-424) and index.
The art of doubting -- Sculpture, painting, and the post-modern reversal of values -- Duchamp, pyrrhonism, and the overthrow of the Kantian tradition -- Another alphabet: the art of Marcel Broodthaers -- The rightness of wrongness: modernism and its alter ego in the work of Dennis Oppenheim -- The art of Jannis Kounellis -- Mute prophecies (1986) -- Winnowing fan on his shoulder?: Kounnellis's voyage (1995) -- Intimate but lethal things: the art of Lucas Samaras -- Negative presences in secret spaces: the art of Eric Orr -- Medicine man: proposing a context for Wolfgang Laib's work -- The serpent in the stone: Marina Abramovic's sculpture -- Your flowers as my hair: the art of Michael Tracy -- Seeds of the future: Antony Gormley's Field -- Anish Kapoor: the darkness inside a stone -- Skywriting: the work of Marinus Boezem -- Louise Bourgeois: "the she wolf is my mother" -- Explicating exfoliation in the work of Mel Chin -- "Perfect things move in circles": the sculpture of James Lee Byars -- Basic dichotomies in Meret Oppenheim's work -- Location and space in the Kienholz world -- Jana Sterbak: materials and their truth -- Tony Cragg: landscape artist -- Francesc Torres: the man with three brains -- Elaine Reichek: sins of the fathers -- Leonardo Drew: the great migration -- "Nothing behind it": the sculpture of Gerhard Merz -- In the form of a thistle: the work of Dove Bradshaw -- Reassembling the pieces: the sculpture of James Croak.
"Framed in a lucid discussion of the intellectual issues surrounding the postmodern movement, the essays in this book re-examine the course of twentieth-century art through the work of twenty-five major sculptors. McEvilley masterfully traces the evolution of modern sculpture from the readymades of Marcel Duchamp to the anti-painting statements of the 1960s to the spiritualism and conceptualism of the 1980s and 1990s. This is a groundbreaking work in the field of art criticism and a fundamental text for anyone interested in the history of current art and culture."--Publisher description.
1581150237 9781581150230
98074535
Sculpture, Modern--20th century
Postmodernism.
NB198.5.P66 / M37 1999
735.23