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Master Narratives and Their Discontents

By James Elkins

Book information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Year
2005
ISBN
9781135872571, 9780415972697
LCC
N7475 -- .E45 2005eb
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1879749 bytes)
Series
Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts Ser.
Pages
201\0
Time added
2023-08-05 18:35:12
Art criticism; ART015000; ART015100; ART015110

Description

In this bracing engagement with the many versions of art history, James Elkins argues that the story of modernism and postmodernism is almost always told in terms of four narratives. Works of art are either seen as modern or postmodern, or praised for their technical skill or because of the politics they appear to embody. These are master narratives of contemporary criticism, and each leads to a different understanding of what art is and does. Both a cogent overview of the state of thinking about art and a challenge to think outside the art historical box, Master Narratives and their Discontents is the first volume in a series of short books on the theories of modernism by leading art historians on twentieth-century art and art criticism.

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