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Modernities : art-matters in the present
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Modernities : art-matters in the present

Author: Joseph Masheck
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1993.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Masheck, Joseph.
Modernities.
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1993
(OCoLC)624210202
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Joseph Masheck
ISBN: 0271008083 : 9780271008080
OCLC Number: 24065950
Description: xvi, 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Responsibility: Joseph Masheck.

Abstract:

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.

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