Art Since 1980: Charting the Contemporary, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (September 16, 2013) © 2014
Peter Kalb

Title overview

Examines contemporary art from its roots to the present day

 

Art Since 1980: Charting the Contemporary presents a chronological survey from the late 20th century into the early 21st century. This title is built around short discussions on individual artists. Author Peter Kalb maintains a balance between a social history of institutions and contexts, and attention to individual aesthetic choices. Works cited come from these fields: painting, photography, and sculpture, plus installation, performance, and video art.

 

 

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  • Emphasizes Historical Narrative in Contemporary Art - Examples throughout the book reflect significant cultural and political movements and themes, connecting the histories of modern art and the world at large. Topics addressed include feminism, activism, class, warfare, and social injustice.
  • Employs a Variety of Analytical Avenues – Works are discussed through formal analysis, social history, and biographical studies. A collection of theoretical and political approaches to understanding art are also examined.
  • Explores Art in a Global Context - The main narrative starts in the U.S., widens to cities that once constituted satellite art centers, then takes on a global context, discussing artists from Asia, the U.S., Latin America, and more.
  • Cites Accessible Artworks – The works of art referred to throughout the book are pieces readers can actually go see. Works found outside the U.S. are described in great detail, giving readers a chance to explore foreign pieces.

Table of contents

In this section:

  1. Brief Table of Contents
  2. Detailed Table of Contents

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Discovering the Contemporary
  • Chapter 2. Taking Pictures: Appropriation and Its Consequences
  • Chapter 3. Back to the Easel: Neo-Expressionism and the Return of Painting
  • Chapter 4. Into the Streets
  • Chapter 5. Commodities and Consumerism
  • Chapter 6. Memory and History
  • Chapter 7. Culture, Body, Self
  • Chapter 8. Eastward Expansion: Contemporary Art in Russia and China
  • Chapter 9. Engaging the Global Present
  • Chapter 10. New Metaphors and New Narratives
  • Chapter 11. The Art of Contemporary Experience

DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

  • The Beginnings of Contemporaneity and the Object of Its Critique
  • Clement Greenberg: Objects of Concern
  • Beginning the Contemporary
  • Exhibitions and the Art Market
  • Narrative and Methods

Chapter 1. Discovering the Contemporary

  • New Movements and the New Metaphors
  • Institutional Critique
  • African-American Critiques
  • Feminist Statements

Chapter 2. Taking Pictures: Appropriation and Its Consequences

  • Power on Display
  • Identity and the Gaze
  • Spaces of Action

Chapter 3. Back to the Easel: Neo-Expressionism and the Return of Painting

  • “A New Spirit in Painting”
  • The United States
  • Italy
  • Germany
  • Epilogue, Addenda, Errata

Chapter 4. Into the Streets

  • The East Village and the Alternative Scene
  • Art in the Community
  • From Marked Territory to the Mass Media

Chapter 5. Commodities and Consumerism

  • Market Forces
  • Signs and Abstractions
  • Commodity and Form in Europe
  • The Internationalism of Commodity Art

Chapter 6. Memory and History

  • Memorializing War
  • African-American Histories
  • Art Histories and Civil Wars

Chapter 7. Culture, Body, Self

  • Body as Form and Content
  • Changing Strategies: Body as Social Medium
  • Too Close: Personal Lives and Artistic Practices
  • Embodying Abstraction
  • Beyond the “I”

Chapter 8. Eastward Expansion: Contemporary Art in Russia and China

  • Russia
  • China

Chapter 9. Engaging the Global Present

  • Cuban Experiments
  • Mapping the Global Present
  • Youth Culture as a Measure of Global Change?
  • Imaging the Global Economy
  • Nodes on the Global Network: Israel and Palestine

Chapter 10. New Metaphors and New Narratives

  • Relearning to Paint
  • Space and Sculpture
  • The Power of Fiction
  • Narrativity 2.0

Chapter 11. The Art of Contemporary Experience

  • The Experience of Experience
  • Experience Observed
  • Mass Media, Personal Experience, and Politics

Author bios

Peter R. Kalb is the Cynthia L. and Theodore S. Berenson Professor of Contemporary Art at Brandeis University where he teaches modern and contemporary art history. Before preparing Art Since 1980 he was the revising author of the Fifth Edition of H.H. Arnason History of Modern Art and the author of High Drama: The New York Cityscapes of Georgia O’Keeffe and Margaret Bourke-White. His scholarship addresses issues in twentieth- and twenty-first-century art and criticism and he serves as the Boston-based corresponding editor for Art in America. 
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