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Record Nr.

UNINA9910800033503321

Autore

Lee Pamela M

Titolo

New Games [[electronic resource] ] : Postmodernism After Contemporary Art / / Pamela M. Lee ; With an introduction by Johanna Burton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Routledge, 2013

ISBN

0-203-93055-X

1-283-99438-0

1-135-85871-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts

Classificazione

ART015110SOC052000

Disciplina

709.04

Soggetti

Postmodernism

Visual Arts

Art, Architecture & Applied Arts

Visual Arts - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; New Games; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Series Preface; Foreword by Johanna Burton; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Postmodernism, an Incomplete Project; 1. Postmodernism After "The Contemporary"; 2. New Games; 3. Game Show; Conclusion: Mixed Hopes, Mixed Strategies; Seminar; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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, Öyvind Fahlström 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-kn