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The Triumph of Anti-Art: Conceptual and Performance Art in the Formation of Post-Modernism by Thomas McEvilley (Paperback, 2012)

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From roughly 1965 to 1980, Conceptual Art and Performance Art took center stage throughout the western world, introducing new and complex ideas to the practice of contemporary art which reverberate to this day. Thomas McEvilley's The Triumph of Anti-Art t only explains the origins of these controversial and compelling art forms, but also uncovers many relatively unrecognized yet indisputably important artists, American and European. He guides the reader through a thicket of seemingly arcane meanings of these nrepresentational art form, and brings clarity to the intentions and agendas of these artists, as well as to their real world contexts. The long-term effects of anti-art, and the development of the pluralistic situation kwn as post-Modernism, are described in vivid detail. From the Greek philosopher Diogenes, through the 19th-century German romantic tradition, to the modern art critic Clement Greenberg, McEvilley traces philosophical ideas and political impulses that tempor

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Publisher
Mcpherson & Co Publishers,U.S.
ISBN-10
0929701925
ISBN-13
9780929701929
eBay Product ID (ePID)
184819303

Product Key Features

Author
Thomas Mcevilley
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
The Arts: General & Référence
Type
Textbook

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Place of Publication
New York
Date of Publication
06/06/2012
Country of Publication
United States

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