| Description |
1 online resource (298 pages) |
| Contents |
Chapter One: Perspectives on the Contemporary Art Market and its Institutions ; The Contemporary Art Market ; Contemporary Art, Celebrity & Private Collecting ; Perspectives on Contemporary Art Patronage ; The Arts Council's Per Cent for Art Scheme ; Contexts for Public Art & Other Commissioning Organisations ; British Art Awards and Prizes ; The Creative Economy and Cultural Regeneration ; Contemporary Art Fairs and Biennales -- Chapter Two: Post-Conceptual British Painting ; Painting: Histories, Ideas and Contexts ; British Painting: Cultural Politics, Dissent and other Narratives ; Place, Entropy and the Imaginary in Contemporary Painting ; Remodernism, Stuckism and Film Noir Nostalgia ; Gestural and Geometric British Painting: Modernisms Revisited -- Chapter Three: Installation Art and Sculpture as Institutional Paradigms ; Installations and Installation Art ; Site-specific and Non Site-Specific Installations ; Installation, Objecthood and Active Spectatorship ; Phenomenology and Installation Art ; Installation Art, Praxis and Relational Aesthetics ; Installation Practice as a Dream-Like Encounter ; Paradigms of Installation Art as Immersive Experience and Subjective Disintegration ; Installations, Bodily Response and Experience ; Installation, Politics and Activated Spectatorship ; 'Sculpture in the Expanded Field' -- Traditions and Revisions ; Sculpture as Commodity and Appropriation ; Sculpture, Ambivalence and the Abject -- Chapter Four: New Media in Transition: Photography, Video & the Performative ; Photography: Contexts & Histories ; Narratives and Countercultures: Video and Performance Art ; Performance, Abjection and Other Narratives ; Documentary Genres: Docu-fiction and Social Reportage ; Technical Interventions, De-familiarisation and Spectacle ; Portraiture, Still Life and New Media Art: Objectification and Reversals |
| Summary |
The last few decades have been among the most dynamic within recent British cultural history. Artists across all genres and media have developed and re-fashioned their practice against a radically changing social and cultural landscape - both national and global. This book takes a fresh look at some of the themes, ideas and directions which have informed British art since the later 1980s through to the first decade of the new millennium. In addition to discussing some iconic images and examples, it also looks more broadly at the contexts in which a new 'post-conceptual' generation of artists, |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Art, British -- 20th century -- Themes, motives
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Art, British -- 21st century -- Themes, motives
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ART -- European.
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Art, British -- Themes, motives
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135654764 |
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113565476X |
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