After Nihilism
Essays on Contemporary Art
Out of Print
Part of Contemporary Artists and their Critics
- Author: Wilfried Dickhoff
- Date Published: May 2000
- availability: Unavailable - out of print March 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521596985
Out of Print
Paperback
Other available formats:
Hardback
Looking for an inspection copy?
This title is not currently available on inspection
-
In 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. Applying Adorno's concept of negative freedom in the autonomous work of art, he demonstrates how the works of these artists, in which the contradictions and paradoxes of deconstruction/ reconstruction; beauty/ sublime; difference/ indifference; affirmation/ negation; authenticity/cynicism; subject/ non-identity, are never resolved, thus creating images of competing complexities. Tracing the development of the Neo-Avant garde through the 1980s to the present, this collection provides indepth analysis of particular works of art and demonstrates the author's close engagement with and understanding of the contemporary art world.
Read more- Examines art of the 80s and 90s
- Contains essays on well-known avant-garde artists: Howard Hodgkin, Joseph Beuys, Cindy Sherman
Customer reviews
Not yet reviewed
Be the first to review
Review was not posted due to profanity
×Product details
- Date Published: May 2000
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521596985
- length: 302 pages
- dimensions: 247 x 172 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.71kg
- contains: 79 b/w illus.
- availability: Unavailable - out of print March 2011
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.
Related Books
Sorry, this resource is locked
Please register or sign in to request access. If you are having problems accessing these resources please email lecturers@cambridge.org
Register Sign in» Proceed
You are now leaving the Cambridge University Press website. Your eBook purchase and download will be completed by our partner www.ebooks.com. Please see the permission section of the www.ebooks.com catalogue page for details of the print & copy limits on our eBooks.
Continue ×Are you sure you want to delete your account?
This cannot be undone.
Thank you for your feedback which will help us improve our service.
If you requested a response, we will make sure to get back to you shortly.
×