New Games: Postmodernism After Contemporary Art

by Pamela M. Lee

Book Overview

Pamela M. Lee's New Games revisits postmodernism in light of art history's more recent embrace of "the contemporary." What can the theories and practices associated with postmodernism tell us about the obsession with the contemporary in both the academy and the art world? In looking at work by Dara Birnbaum, yvind Fahlstr m and Richard Serra, among others, Lee returns to Jean-Francois Lyotard's canonical text The Postmodern Condition as a means...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415988799
• ISBN13: 9780415988797
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"