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Zusatztext "Artist relishing his role as troublemaker: The piece had to go! it was explained to Arneson! because the vice president of Kaiser Industries saw it and said! 'Goddamn! no f- artist is going to attack American capitalism in this manner.' The piece was eventually bought by an Arneson student and collector! whose husband hated it so much that she later said that conflict over it had contributed to her divorce." Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Fineberg is Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Art History Emeritus at the University of Illinois! Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Innocent Eye: Children's Art and The Modern Artist! Art since 1940! and Imagining America: Icons of 20th Century American Art. He is the editor of When We Were Young: New Perspectives on the Art of the Child (UC Press). Klappentext "I went to Davis and I began spending time in TB9. It's wonderful to have a major book on Arneson that describes Bob, his studio door mostly open, working, working and so we all were working, working—always encouragement always looking. It was the place I needed at that time—he included everyone in the idea of making and doing."—Bruce Nauman "Fineberg delves deeply into the life and art of one of America's most important and under-known artists."—Gary Garrels, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art "The book reveals a body of work that is as complex, entangled, and internally dynamic as the world that the artist encountered."—Hannah Higgins, University of Illinois, Chicago Zusammenfassung Tells the story of how a high school art teacher transformed himself into an artist of international stature and ambition. This title shows how Robert Arneson's work articulated the crisis of narcissism that has defined American culture since 1970. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Reading the World! Constructing the Self 1 Foundations! 1930–1960 2 Identity and Embodiment! 1961–1969 3 On Narcissism! 1970–1981 4 On the Outskirts of the Self! 1981–1986 5 Parsing Desire! 1987–1992 Chronology Selected Bibliography Index Photography Credits ...
