After Nihilism
After Nihilism
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USDIn After Nihilism, Wilfried Dickhoff examines the art work of Neo-Avant-Garde European and American artists, including Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, and Philip Taaffe. Tracing the development of the Neo-Avant-Garde through the 1980s to the present, this collection provides in-depth analysis of particular works of art and demonstrates the author's close engagement with and understanding of the contemporary art world.
- Examines art of the 80s and 90s
- Contains essays on well-known avant-garde artists: Howard Hodgkin, Joseph Beuys, Cindy Sherman
Product details
February 2000Paperback
9780521596985
302 pages
247 × 172 × 20 mm
0.71kg
79 b/w illus.
Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Theoretical Prelude:
- 1. Inbetween being (t)here - a scenario of thoughts on the (im)possibilities of art
- Part II. Paths of a Different Presence:
- 2. The Fautrier yardstick
- 3. The unredeemed in Joseph Beuys' expanded art
- 4. Marcel Broodthaer's determinate negation
- 5. Gerhard Richter: painting's responsibility
- 6. Brice Marden: ensouled form
- 7. Howard Hodgkin: the carnal presence of emotion
- 8. A. R. Penck: the import of the real
- 9. Don Van Vliet: coherent deformation
- Part III. Theoretical Interlude:
- 10. After Nihilism
- Part IV. Is There A Presence of Difference?:
- 11. Francesco Clemente: be a curtain and tear your self apart
- 12. Donald Baechler: on line
- 13. Julian Schnabel's intensity program
- 14. Walter Dahn: the painter in revolt
- 15. Georg Dokoupil: the trivial position
- 16. Dahn and Dokuouil: masks of (dis) enchantment
- 17. Martin Kippenberger: filthy truth
- 18. David Salle: on stages
- 19. Ross Bleckner: traces of deathlessness
- 20. Andreas Schulze: the family idiot
- 21. Gunther Forg/Philip Taaffe: we are not afraid
- 22. Philip Taaffe: the other (and the) ornament
- 23. Rosemarie Trockel's encore
- 24. Georg Herold: over-exposing and counter-illuminating the theater of meaning
- 25. Cindy Sherman: portraits of becoming ano(r)mal
- 26. Siegfried Anzinger: pre-figures of (possible) painting
- 27. George Condo: (ir)real presences
- 28. Albert Oehlen: beauty is a rare thing
- 29. Frances Scholz: to a Line
- Part V. Pragmatical Apreslude:
- 30. Blindmen, throw away your canes
- Notes.
