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A House Divided: American Art since 1955
A House Divided: American Art since 1955
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Author Anne Middleton Wagner
Manufacturer University of California Press
PublicationDate 2012-02-14

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In this exhilarating book, Anne Middleton Wagner challenges readers to rethink the work of a range of post-World War II artists--Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Maya Lin, Bruce Nauman, and Agnes Martin among them--and thus to re-assess the relationship of art to politics and social life. The art of U.S. empire, she argues, is marked by deep dividedness. Painters and sculptors seemed entranced by American symbols, yet used them to enigmatic ends--exuberant, nightmarish, or both. Nor could postwar culture decide if it preserved sites devoted to productive withdrawal--for artists, the special zone called the studio--or simply maintained a margin where numbed subjects rehearsed the rites of vanished self-expression. This book charts the to-and-fro in recent American art between acknowledging the facts of nation and consumerism, and searching for meaningful models. And it shows that this process engages--even structures--national history and the citizen's self.

Author Anne Middleton Wagner
Binding Paperback
EAN 9780520270978
Edition 1
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ISBN 0520270975
Label University of California Press
Manufacturer University of California Press
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NumberOfPages 304
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PublicationDate 2012-02-14
Publisher University of California Press
SKU 749780520270978
Studio University of California Press
Title A House Divided: American Art since 1955
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