Joseph Masheck wants to take art, historical and modern, as a field of lively interrelations (as if in "random-access memory" retrieval), rather than just second the motion that art history should be nonlinear; and he takes the task of art criticism to be theory in practice. Thus significa...

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Main Author:	Masheck, Joseph 1942- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	University Park, Pa. Pennsylvania State Univ. Press 1993
Subjects:	Geschichte 1900-2000 Geschichte 1900-1990 Art - 20e siècle Modernisme (art) Modernisme (cultuur) Postmodernisme Kunst Postmoderne Art, Modern > 20th century Modernism (Art) Postmodernism Kunstbetrachtung Aufsatzsammlung
Summary:	Joseph Masheck wants to take art, historical and modern, as a field of lively interrelations (as if in "random-access memory" retrieval), rather than just second the motion that art history should be nonlinear; and he takes the task of art criticism to be theory in practice. Thus significant new art is represented in the thirty essays in Modernities, besides already "classic" modern architecture, sculpture, and photography, and contemporary painting by artists. Alternating between a comprehensive sense of art history and engagement with the new and unplumbed contemporary arts, he considers himself a kind of aesthetic double agent. Because Masheck is concerned with the concrete standing of artworks, he speculates on how works of art, including Marcel Duchamp's "ready-mades," relate to other things. More general themes range from the origin of the modern sense of form in prehistoric an to the historical underpinnings of expressionism and on to latter-day "graffiti" culture.
Physical Description:	XVI, 304 S. Ill.
ISBN:	0271008083