The International Avant-Garde since 1945
Chapter 29
Art History 2nd Edition- Marilyn Stokstad
Upon first reading, this chapter will appear to be incredibly complex to many people. It is filled with -isms, movements, counter-movements, and non-movements--all in all, a bewildering melange of seemingly contradictory and mutually destructive tendencies. Well, welcome not only to contemporary art, but also to the contemporary world! A closer reading--perhaps one divided into several chunks with intervals for reflection--will reveal that for all the "complexity and contradiction," much of what has happened in late twentieth-century art is still soundly based on historical precedents that we saw in earlier chapters. Very little of what has
happened would have shocked Dada artists, and much of what has happened can be seen as a continuation of those poles that were so clearly set out in the last chapter: formalism and expressionism.
Goals for this chapter include:
happened would have shocked Dada artists, and much of what has happened can be seen as a continuation of those poles that were so clearly set out in the last chapter: formalism and expressionism.
Goals for this chapter include:
- Grasp the speed of change in art in our own time.
- Recognize the emergence of New York as a major cultural capital.
- Recognize the growth of "borderless" art.
- Appreciate the extent to which much of the developments in art represent
conversations of art with art.
- Analyze the role that liberation (feminist, color, third world) have had on
both art and patronage.
ThemeThe Avante Garde- to be darning and unexpected
Not what you think and outside of normal
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Vocabexpressionist
art brut graffiti action painting/gesturalism washes happenings performance art kinetic iconographic encaustic collage benday dots value hues warp appropriates pluralism digital art multiculturalism |