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Postmodernism (Movements in Modern Art) | 
 enlarge | Author: Eleanor Heartney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 30202
Media: Paperback
Pages: 96
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7 x 0.3
ISBN: 0521004381
Dewey Decimal Number: 709.04
EAN: 9780521004381
ASIN: 0521004381
Publication Date: January 15, 2001
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Product Description
This volume is an introduction to the intellectual movement known as Postmodernism and its impact on the visual arts. In clear, jargon-free language, Eleanor Heartney situates Postmodernism historically, showing how it developed both in reaction to and as a result of some of the fundamental beliefs underlying Modernism, especially its positivist, universalizing aspects. She then analyzes paradigmatic Postmodern works of art by artists such as Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, Jeff Koons and Robert Mapplethorpe. Postmodernism provides a concise and articulate overview of the Postmodern phenomenon. Eleanor Heartney is a contributing editor for Art in America, New Art Examiner, and Art Press. In 1991, she was the recipient of the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism. Heartney is a board member of the American section of the AICA. She is also the author of Critical Condition: American Culture at the Crossroads (Cambridge, 1997). She lives in New York.
Book Description
This volume is an introduction to the intellectual movement known as Postmodernism and its impact on the visual arts. In clear, jargon-free language, Eleanor Heartney situates Postmodernism historically, showing how it developed both in reaction to and as a result of some of the fundamental beliefs underlying Modernism, especially its positivist, universalizing aspects. She then analyzes paradigmatic Postmodern works of art by artists such as Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, Jeff Koons and Robert Mapplethorpe. Her text provides a concise and articulate overview of the Postmodern phenomenon.
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 Good overview March 5, 2002
Jon (Sac Town)
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
good overview of post modernism. very informative, it talks about many of the key issues in fairly decent detail.
 Couldn't understand it September 23, 2008
Elizabeth M. May (Great Mills, MD United States)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had to read this book for a communications class. It's about postmodernism. I didn't know anything about that subject before I read the book, and I know nothing about that subject now that I've been forced to read it. The layout is very interesting, but the text is way too hard for a non-philosophy or non-art person like myself to understand. I need plain English, and this wasn't it.
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