The Exiles's Return: Toward a Redefinition of Painting for the Post-Modern Era

by Thomas McEvilley

Book Overview

This volume gathers together essays by the noted critic Thomas McEvilley which document and analyse the fundamental changes that have taken place in painting from the 1960s to the present. Sometime during the 1960s, the ideology of Modernism began to be perceived as a collapsing structure. In terms of the visual arts, this perception focused primarily upon the tradition of easel painting which was declared to be dead. After two decades, painting revived...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521456150
• ISBN13: 9780521456159
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.9"