Modern Art Culture: A Reader provides an essential resource for
understanding the culture of modern art since the 1960s.
In recent years, media theorists and historians have asked
whether works of imaginative art can have any impact in our
image-saturated culture. Given the power of institutions, how do
radical artists produce effective cultural interventions? In the
aftermath of September 11th, 2001, many argue that pressing
questions about works of art and their meanings are inseparable not
only from contemporary social and political issues but also from
major debates and developments in the last four decades.
To explore such questions and issues, the Reader is divided into
six related parts with articles from journals, magazines and
exhibition catalogues that exemplify important interventions from
the 1960s onwards: Histories, Representations and Remembrance; Art
and Visual/Mass/Popular Culture; Institutions;
Inclusions/Exclusions; Bodies and Identities; Power and
Permissibility.
Texts range from artists? engagement with the veil and veiling
as metaphors for post-colonialist understandings of representation
and contemporary art to early debates about, for example, ?activist
art?, discourses of the ?body?, civil rights, ethnicity, and
cultural power. Importantly these selected texts offer examples of
analysis that can enable readers to examine, critically, their own
selection of representations produced in a variety of contexts.
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