Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975

by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh

Book Overview

Eighteen essays written by Buchloh over the last twenty years, each looking at a single artist within the framework of specific theoretical and historical questions.

Some critics view the postwar avant-garde as the empty recycling of forms and strategies from the first two decades of the twentieth century. Others view it, more positively, as a new articulation of the specific conditions of cultural production in the postwar period. Benjamin...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262523477
• ISBN13: 9780262523479
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 632 Pages
• Weight: 3.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.6" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher