The Exiles's Return by Thomas Mcevilley

The Exiles's Return by Thomas Mcevilley

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 around 1980. Its return from exile, however, signaled new aims. Incorporating elements of conceptualism and performance, painting has assumed a new theoretical basis in postmodern cultural theory. Demonstrating the failure of artistic modernism in social and cultural terms, McEvilley elucidates the new theoretical context in which easel painting is practised today. He shows painting to be a more versatile and flexible medium than was previously thought, as well as a means of expression that can incorporate a variety of social and theoretical stances without compromising its focus on pictorial reality.

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ISBN 13	9780521456159
ISBN 10	0521456150
Titel	The Exiles's Return
Autor	Thomas Mcevilley
Serie	Contemporary Artists And Their Critics
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1994-01-28
Seitenanzahl	245
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