A companion to contemporary art since 1945

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List of Figures. Notes on Contributors. Series Editor's Preface. Acknowledgments. Part I: Introduction. 1. Writing Contemporary Art into History, a Paradox?: Amelia Jones (University of Manchester). Part II: Decades. 1945-1960. 2. 'America' and its Discontents: Art and Politics 1945-1960: Gavin Butt (Goldsmiths College). 1960-1970. 3. '1960-1970': A Decade Out-of-Bounds: Anna Dezeuze (University of Manchester). 1970-1980. 4. 'I'm sort of sliding around in place... ummm...': Art in the 1970s: Sam Gathercole (University of Essex). 1980-1990. 5. Pictures and Positions in the 1980s: Howard Singerman (University of Virginia). 1990-2004. 6. 1990-2004: In the Clutches of Time: Henry M. Sayre (Oregon State University). Part III: Aesthetics. Formalism. 7. Form and Formless: Caroline A. Jones (MIT). Art as Idea. 8. Re-Thinking the 'Duchamp Effect': David Hopkins (University of Glasgow). Beauty. 9. Regarding Beauty: Margaret Morgan. Part IV: Politics. Avant-Garde. 10. Avant-Garde: A Historiography of a Critical Concept: Johanne Lamoureux (Universite de Montreal). Activism. 11. Facture for Change: U.S. Activist Art since 1950: Jennifer Gonzalez (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Adrienne Posner (University of California, Santa Cruz). Culture Wars. 12. 'The Senators Were Revolted': Homophobia and the Culture Wars: Jonathan D. Katz (State University of New York at Stony. Brook). Art and Its Public(s). 13. Crowds and Connoisseurs: Art and the Public Sphere in America: Grant Kester (University of California, San Diego). Part V: Identity/ Subjectivity. The Artist. 14. The Writerly Artist: Beautiful, Boring and Blue: Carol Mavor (University of North Carolina). Diaspora. 15. Diaspora: Multiple Practices, Multiple Worldviews: Steven Nelson (UCLA). Feminism. 16.Power and Pleasure: Feminist Art Practice and Theory in the United States and Britain: Laura Meyer (California State University, Fresno). Queer. 17. Queer Wallpaper: Jennifer Doyle (University of California, Riverside). Race/ Ethnicity. 18. Ethnicity: Alternative Black Art theories in Contemporary Art: Pauline de Souza (University of East London). Embodiment. 19. The Paradoxical Bodies of Contemporary Art: Christine Ross (McGill University). Part VI: Methods/ Theories. Marxism. 20. A Shadow of Marx: Neil Cummings (Chelsea College of Art and Design) and Marysia Lewandowska(Konstfack, Stockholm). Poststructuralism. 21. Postructuralism and Contemporary Art, Past, Present, Future...:Sarah Wilson (University of London). Postcolonial Theory. 22. 'Fragments of Collapsing Space': Postcolonial Theory and Contemporary Art. Mark Crinson (University of Manchester). Visual Culture. 23. Visual Culture Studies: Questions of History, Theory, and Practice: Marquard Smith (Kingston University). Part VII: Technology. Mass Culture, High/Low. 24. 'That's All Folks': Contemporary Art and Popular Culture: Nick Mirzoeff (New York University). Photography/Index. 25. Image + Text: Reconsidering Photography in Contemporary Art: Liz Kotz (University of Minnesota). Spectacle/Appropriation. 26. Imagine There's No Image (It's Easy If You Try): Appropriation in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Dore Bowen (California College of the Arts). Digital Media. 27. 'Life-like': Historizing Process and Responsiveness in Digital Art: Maria Fernandez (Cornell University). Index

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