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Shows of Force : Power, Politics, and Ideology in Art Exhibitions /

It has long been considered a mark of naïveté to ask of a work of art: What does it say? But as Timothy W. Luke demonstrates in Shows of Force, artwork is capable of saying plenty, and much of the message resides in the way it is exhibited. By critically examining the exhibition of art in contempora...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Luke, Timothy W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [1992]
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  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Situating Art and Critical Discourse in Contemporary Political Contexts
  • I ENVISIONING A PAST, IMAGINING THE WEST
  • 1. George Caleb Bingham: Contested Ground
  • 2. Frederic Remington: Riding into the Sunset
  • 3. Frederic Edwin Church: Earth First?
  • 4. The West Explored: How the West was Won, or Why Is the Winning Westernized?
  • 5. Georgia O'Keeffe: Ideology and Utopia in the American Southwest
  • 6. Frank Lloyd Wright: In the Realm of Ideas
  • 7. American Impressionism-California School: "California Dreamin'''?
  • II DEVELOPING THE PRESENT, DEFINING A WORLD
  • 8. Japan-The Shaping of Daimyo Culture, II8S-1868: The Ironies ofImperialism in the Empire of Signs
  • 9. Made in U.S.A.: "The Pride is Back"?
  • 10. IIya Kabakov: Soviet Life
  • 11. Hans Haacke: Unfinished Business
  • 12. Sue Coe: Pure War in the Zero World
  • 13. Hispanic Art in the United States: "This Is Not a Barrio"
  • 14. Roger Brown: Tracing the Silhouettes from the Shadow of the Silent Majorities
  • 15. Robert Longo: The Ecstasy of Communication
  • 16. Culture and Commentary: Riding the Hoverculture
  • 17. The Politics ofImages: Art Criticism as Cultural Criticism
  • Notes
  • Index