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The Disappearance of Objects
Joshua Shannon
其他書名
New York Art and the Rise of the Postmodern City
出版Yale University Press, 2009
主題Art / GeneralArt / Criticism & TheoryArt / History / GeneralArt / American / GeneralArt / History / Contemporary (1945-)History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern
ISBN03001370609780300137064
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0ZLrAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Donald Juddall are iconic names in art history, and each is allowed a chapter's worth of exploration by Shannon (contemporary art history theory, Univ. of Maryland), who manages to surprise us into remembering that these people were grappling with their environment and working to understand the modern urban landscape. See, for example, the photo of Johns and Rauschenberg in Rauschenberg's home. They look like two young men camped out in a cheap flat somewhere in the present day, smoking, having a drink, and talking philosophy. Yet, they were making great strides in using their art, as Shannon argues, to understand how and why "all that was once directly lived has become mere representation," eventually revealing the "inadequacy of language itself." New York City was disappearing all around them, as faceless monoliths of modern glass and steel replaced treasured places where people had lived and died. Theirs was a time of rapid change, and these themes still persist today.Nadine Dalton, Speidel Cuyahoga Cty. P.L., Parma, OH Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.