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.-
Painting, Psychoanalysis, and Spirituality
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Abstract Art in the Late Twentieth Century
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Art versus Nonart
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Building-Art
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Signifying Art
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Beyond the Mainstream
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Anselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger
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Cezanne and The Eternal Feminine
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Surrealist Art and Writing, 1919-1939
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The Widening Circle
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Signs of Psyche in Modern and Postmodern Art
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Artist and Identity in Twentieth-Century America
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521456159 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521456150 |
| Title | The Exiles's Return |
| Author | Thomas Mcevilley |
| Series | Contemporary Artists And Their Critics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1994-01-28 |
| Number of pages | 245 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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