New Monuments and the End of Man - U.s. Sculpture Between War and Peace, 19451975

Zusatztext "A tour de force of social art history, following American sculpture’s mediation of Cold War anxieties until the end of the Nixon era." ---David W. Norman, Art History Robert Slifkin is associate professor of fine arts at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. He is the author of Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art . He lives in New York City. Klappentext How leading American artists reflected on the fate of humanity in the nuclear era through monumental sculptureIn the wake of the atomic bombings of Japan in 1945, artists in the United States began to question what it meant to create a work of art in a world where humanity could be rendered extinct by its own hand. The New Monuments and the EndA new study of postwar sculpture in the United States, revealing its nuanced responses to cultural anxieties in the decades following WWII Zusammenfassung How leading American artists reflected on the fate of humanity in the nuclear era through monumental sculptureIn the wake of the atomic bombings of Japan in 1945, artists in the United States began to question what it meant to create a work of art in a world where humanity could be rendered extinct by its own hand. The New Monuments and the End

Product details

• Authors: Robert Slifkin, Slifkin Robert
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780691192529
• ISBN: 978-0-691-19252-9
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; USA, 20th Century, Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc, ART / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, ART / Sculpture & Installation, ART / American / General, sculpture, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, United States of America, USA, Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings