The Rebirth of Painting in the Late Twentieth Century
The Rebirth of Painting in the Late Twentieth Century
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The Rebirth of Painting in the Twentieth Century examines the continued validity and variety of painting in the post-modern era. Bringing a psychological perspective to the issues, Donald Kuspit argues that painting remains the premier medium of the visual arts, in terms of its potential for innovation and influence on other modes of art making. Discussing a range of representational and abstract painting in the United States and Europe by artists such as Gregory Amenoff, Vincent Desidiero and Odd Nerdrum, Kuspit also examines works by Picasso, Mondrian, Pollock, Johns, and Soutine, among others, with an eye to reevaluating their art historical significance. This study also includes psychosocial studies of various cultural issues that affect painting, including feminism, and Jewishness.
- The book offers a comprehensive, in-depth study of the great variety of modes of modern and postmodern painting
- There is a re-examination and re-evaluation of the oeuvres and art historical position of many prominent painters from a humanistic and psychodynamic point of view
- Many cultural issues involving painting are addressed, feminism amd Jewishness included
Product details
April 2000Paperback
9780521665537
272 pages
253 × 177 × 20 mm
0.658kg
43 b/w illus.
Unavailable - out of print October 2002
Table of Contents
- Part I. Painting: Past and Possible:
- 1. Charles Burchfield: Apocalypse Now
- 2. Soutine's Shudder: Jewish Naiveté?
- 3. Picasso's portraits and the Depths of Modernism
- 4. A shameful cultural sham?: Willem de Kooning's last paintings
- 5. Jackson Pollack: lively art, artless life
- 6. Jasper Johns and Ellsworth Kelly: the deadend of Modernism
- 7. Ivan Albright: anachronistic curiosity or the ultimate Modern Artist?
- 8. Real hallucinations and anal Absolutes: Jiri Georg Dokoupil
- 9. Abstract painting and the spiritual unconscious
- 10. The pathos of purity: Piet Mondrian reassessed
- 11. Negative sublime identity: Pierre Soulages's Abstract paintings
- 12. Unconscious and self-conscious color in 'American-type' painting
- 13. Relics of transcendence
- 14. Gregory Amenoff: renewing Romantic mystical nature painting
- 15. Modern history painting in the United States
- 16. Mourning and memory: Wlodzimierz Ksiazek's abstract paintings
- 17. Laszlo Feher: memory and abandonment
- 18. Odd Nerdrum, perverse humanist
- 19. Vincent Desiderio: postmodern Visionary painting
- Part II. Animadiversions:
- 20. Avant-Garde, Hollywood, depression: the collapse of high art
- 21. Failure of identity: on being half an artist
- 22. Of the immature, by the immature, for the immature: Keith Haring and Cindy Sherman
- 23. Heroic isolation or delusion of grandeur?: Chuck Close's portraits of artists
- 24. Nan Goldin: the taste for pathology
- 25. David Wojnarowicz: the Last Rimbaud
- 26. Woman at risk: the representation of the feminine in modern and postmodern art
- 27. Unconsciously, always an alien and self-alienated: the problem of the Jewish-American artist
- 28. Meyer Shapiro's Jewish unconscious.
