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The Widening Circle: The Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The Widening Circle: The Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Barry Schwabsky
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Series | Contemporary Artists and their Critics |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:252 | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152 |
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Category/Genre | Art and design styles - from c 1900 to now |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780521565691
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Classifications | Dewey:709.04 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | |
Illustrations |
Worked examples or Exercises
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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Publication Date |
13 July 1997 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
In this collection of critical essays the well-known critic Barry Schwabsky reexamines the art produced since the 1960s, demonstrating how the achievements of "high modernism" remain consequential to it, through tensions among representation, abstraction, and pictorial language. With the core of the book focused on Michelangelo Pistoletto and Mel Bochner, Schwabsky also studies the work of emerging artists who also continue to examine modernism's legacies.
Reviews'An admirably clear writer, a good editor of his own texts, Schwabsky provides an engaging perspective on our era which, as he presents it, is in itself not uninteresting.' Burlington Magazine
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