Idiosyncratic Identities: Artists at the End of the Avant-Garde - Couverture souple

Kuspit, Donald Burton

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 052155652X ISBN 13 : 9780521556521

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

A collection of essays on idiosyncratic art.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Postmodernism has been described as a decadent and pluralistic period, where avant-garde art has been institutionalised, stereotyped and effectively neutralised; and where models of art seem to stand in ironical, nihilistic relationship to every other. In this study, Donald Kuspit argues that only the idiosyncratic artist remains credible and convincing in the postmodern era. He pursues a sense of artistic and human identity in a situation where there are no guidelines, art historically or socially. Idiosyncratic art, Kuspit posits, is a radically personal art that establishes unconscious communication between individuals in doubt of their identity. Functioning as a medium of self-identification, it affords a sense of authentic selfhood and communicative intimacy in a postmodern society where authenticity and intimacy seem irrelevant and absurd.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 052155652X
• ISBN 13: 9780521556521
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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