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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-262) and index 1. Modernism and Mass Culture in the Visual Arts -- 2. Fashioning the New York School -- 3. Saturday Disasters: Trace and Reference in Early Warhol -- 4. The Return of Hank Herron: Simulated Abstraction and the Service Economy of Art -- 5. Art Criticism in the Age of Incommensurate Values: On the Thirtieth Anniversary of Artforum -- 6. Handmade Photographs and Homeless Representation -- 7. Ross Bleckner, or the Conditions of Painting's Reincarnation -- 8. Site-Specific Art: The Strong and the Weak -- 9. Profane Illuminations: The Social History of Jeff Wall -- 10. The Simple Life: Pastoralism and the Persistence of Genre in Recent Art -- 11. Unwritten Histories of Conceptual Art: Against Visual Culture Must avant-garde art hold itself apart from the values and beliefs widely held in the common culture? Must advanced artists always be the symbolic adversaries of the ordinary citizen? These questions have dominated, even paralyzed the modern art world, particularly in recent years when perceived elitism and imposed canons of taste have come under fire from all sides. In this stimulating book, a prominent art historian show

Author

Thomas E. Crow

Publisher

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300064384

Subjects

Art, Arts