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Record Nr.

UNINA9910800035303321

Autore

Welchman John C.

Titolo

Art after appropriation : essays on art in the 1990s / / John C. Welchman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : G+B Arts International, , 2003

ISBN

1-136-80136-7

1-136-80137-5

1-283-96526-7

0-203-82744-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

709/.049

Soggetti

Art, Modern - 20th century

Appropriation (Art)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Art After Appropriation; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; IntroductionGlobal Nets: Appropriation and Postmodernity; Chapter 1 Photographies, Counter-revolution and Second Worlds: Allegories by Design, 1989; Chapter 2 Photographies, Counter-revolution and Second Worlds: Releases and Counter-appropriations, 1989; Chapter 3 New Bodies: The Medical Venus and the Techno-grotesque, 1993-1994; Chapter 4 Faces, Boxes and The Moves: On Travelling Video Cultures, 1993; Chapter 5 Public Art and the Spectacle of Money: On Art Rebate/ Arte Reembolso, 1993

Chapter 6 'Peeping Over the Wall': Narcissism in the 1990s, 1995Chapter 7 Parametrology: From the White Cube to the Rainbow Net, 1996; Chapter 8 Culture/Cuts: Post-appropriation in the Work of Cody Hyun Choi, 1998; Chapter 9 Some Horizons of Medialisation: The Rainbow Net, 1999; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Beginning with the first comprehensive account of the discourse of appropriation that dominated the art world in the late 1970s and 1980s, Art After Appropriation suggests a matrix of inflections and refusals around the culture of taking or citation, each chapter loosely correlated with one year of the decade between 1989 and 1999. The



opening chapters show how the Second World culture of the USSR gave rise to a new visibility for photography during the dissolution of the Soviet Union around 1989. Welchman examines how genres of ethnography, documentary and travel are crossed with fic