Critical Condition
American Culture at the Crossroads
Part of Contemporary Artists and their Critics
- Author: Eleanor Heartney
- Date Published: May 1997
- availability: Unavailable - out of print June 2005
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521557634
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In Critical Condition, Eleanor Heartney examines the art world from 1985 to 1994, a tumultuous period that ushered in the art boom and bust, the emergence (and in some cases disappearance) of developments like Appropriation, Neo-Geo, and multiculturalism, and the ongoing attack on art by the religious right and political conservatives. Chronicling events that took place during this decade, with a particular focus on public art, Heartney also examines the mechanisms of the gallery and media system, especially as they relate to the practice of art criticism; as well as the complexities of the debate on art and pornography. Written during a pivotal period of contemporary art, Heartney's essay provides a picture of a culture in a crisis of values which has yet to be resolved.
Read more- Challenges calls for censorship with reasoned understanding of the role of pornography in avant-garde art
- Provides a critical look at multiculturalism as defined within the art world
- Includes a section devoted to public art
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- Date Published: May 1997
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521557634
- length: 239 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 153 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.455kg
- contains: 29 b/w illus.
- availability: Unavailable - out of print June 2005
Table of Contents
1. In praise of uncertainty
Part I. Movements and Strategies: From Recycled Art to Diversity by Decree:
2. Appropriation and the loss of authenticity
3. Neo-Geo storms New York
4. Rehabilitating abstraction
5. Social responsibility and censorship
6. Art in the nineties: a mixed prognosis
7. Aesthetic quality, artistic control
Part II. Analysing The System: Commerce and the Critic:
8. High priest or media flack: the art critic in the age of hype
9. Artists versus the market
10. Art impresarios: the conjuring of the critic curator
Part III. Body Work: Sexuality and Transgression:
11. David Salle: impersonal effects
12. A necessary transfiguration: pornography and postmodernism
13. Pornography, feminist fundamentalism and the transcendence of self
Part IV. Enter the Other: Multiculturalism and its Discontents:
14. The whole earth show
15. Against nature/primal spirit: two views of contemporary Japanese art
16. The new word order
17. Identity politics at the Whitney
Part V. The Problematics of Public Art:
18. The new social sculpture
19. What's missing at Battery Park?
20. Report from Newcastle: cultivating an engaged public art
21. The dematerialization of public art
Name index.
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