The Widening Circle: The Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Widening Circle: The Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Barry Schwabsky
SeriesContemporary Artists and their Critics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:252
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreArt and design styles - from c 1900 to now
ISBN/Barcode 9780521565691
ClassificationsDewey:709.04
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 13 July 1997
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

In this collection of critical essays the well-known critic Barry Schwabsky reexamines the art produced since the 1960s, demonstrating how the achievements of "high modernism" remain consequential to it, through tensions among representation, abstraction, and pictorial language. With the core of the book focused on Michelangelo Pistoletto and Mel Bochner, Schwabsky also studies the work of emerging artists who also continue to examine modernism's legacies.

Reviews

'An admirably clear writer, a good editor of his own texts, Schwabsky provides an engaging perspective on our era which, as he presents it, is in itself not uninteresting.' Burlington Magazine