Pamela M. Lee s New Games revisits postmodernism in light of art
history's more recent embrace of "the contemporary." What can the
theories and practices associated with postmodernism tell us about
the obsession with the contemporary in both the academy and the art
world? In looking at work by Dara Birnbaum, yvind Fahlstr m and
Richard Serra, among others, Lee returns to Jean-Francois Lyotard's
canonical text The Postmodern Condition as a means to understand
more recent art-critical interests in interactivity, collectivism
and neo-liberalism. She reads Lyotard's well-known treatment of
language games relative to the game theory associated with the Cold
War and the rise of the information society. New Games asks readers
to think critically about our recent past and the embattled state
of our contemporary preoccupations.
With a critical introduction by Johanna Burton, New Games is the
fourth and penultimate volume in Routledge s series of short books
on the theories of modernism by leading art historians on
twentieth-century art and art criticism.
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