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

• Autore: Lee Pamela M
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, : Routledge, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 709.04
• Soggetto topico: Postmodernism; Visual Arts; Art, Architecture & Applied Arts; Visual Arts - General
• Classificazione: ART015110SOC052000
• Persona (resp. second.): BurtonJohanna
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: New Games
• ISBN: 0-203-93055-X; 1-283-99438-0; 1-135-85871-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910800033503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts, ; v.4