How art becomes history : essays on art, society, and culture in post-New Deal America - Northwest Indian College

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How art becomes history : essays on art, society, and culture in post-New Deal America / Maurice Berger.

Berger, Maurice, 1956- (Author).

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These essays on American art and culture explore overlapping social, political, cultural and aesthetic issues of post-New Deal America. The book discusses some of the pioneering developments in art history and cultural studies, from the dissolution of formalism in the late 1960s to the reemergence of Marxism in the 1970s and the infusion of semiotic, feminist, psychoanalytical and racial issues in the 1980s. Also covered is the expanding range of interest of art history into examinations of the social, aesthetic and political implications of popular culture. The subjects include the FSA photography project; the racial and cultural politics of the museum; the 1964 World's Fair; artists' representations of the Vietnam War; sexual liberation and avant-garde film of the 1960s; and the political function of artists' writings in the 1980s. Maurice Berger explains the very special nature of American culture from the 1930s to the present, centering on the way in which the 1960s witnessed both a culmination of the New Deal vision and a rejection of these older values in the form of a radical counterculture.

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ISBN: 0064303853
ISBN: 9780064303859
ISBN: 0064302024
ISBN: 9780064302029
Physical Description: xxiii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Icon Editions, ©1992.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:: Introduction: How Art Becomes History -- I. FSA: The Illiterate Eye -- II. Of Cold Wars and Curators: The Case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg -- III. World Fairness -- IV. Broken Bodies, Dead Babies, and Other Weapons of War -- V. Race and Representation -- VI. Black Skin, White Masks: Adrian Piper and the Politics of Viewing -- VII. Culture Stories/American Myths. a. Yvonne Rainer's Privilege. b. Young K.'s Friendly America. c. Barbet Schroeder's Reversal of Fortune -- VIII. Are Art Museums Racist? -- IX. Speaking Out: Some Distance to Go.

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Subject:: Arts and society > United States > History > 20th century.
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