An Apprehensive Aesthetic: The Legacy of Modernist Culture: The Legacy of Modernist Culture
Author:   Andrew McNamara
Publisher:   Verlag Peter Lang
Edition:   New edition
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9783039117208


Pages:   294
Publication Date:   08 June 2009
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An Apprehensive Aesthetic: The Legacy of Modernist Culture: The Legacy of Modernist Culture


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Author:   Andrew McNamara
Publisher:   Verlag Peter Lang
Imprint:   Verlag Peter Lang
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9783039117208


ISBN 10:   3039117203
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   08 June 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Contents: The Perplexity of a Culture of Modernity - Wondrous Objectivity: art history, Freud and detection - Duchamp: creativity is a form of onanism - The medium of modernism - Love, identification and confrontation within modernity - Confrontation and Legacies: Gerhard Richter's barbed portrait - Illegible echoes - Felix Gonzalez-Torres, the artist-spy.

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The Author: Andrew McNamara is an Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. He has published on art history, aesthetics, modernism and contemporary art in both Europe and the United States. With Ann Stephen and Philip Goad, he produced a major appraisal of the reception of modernism in Australia, Modernism & Australia: Documents on Art, Design and Architecture 1917-1967 (2006) and Modern Times: The Unwritten History of Modernism in Australia (2008).

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