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Master narratives and their discontents /
In this bracing engagement with the many versions of art history, James Elkins argues that the story of modernism and postmodernism is almost always told in terms of four narratives. Works of art are either seen as modern or postmodern, or praised for their technical skill or because of the politics...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2005]
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| Colección: | Theories of modernism and postmodernism in the visual arts ;
volume 1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In this bracing engagement with the many versions of art history, James Elkins argues that the story of modernism and postmodernism is almost always told in terms of four narratives. Works of art are either seen as modern or postmodern, or praised for their technical skill or because of the politics they appear to embody. These are master narratives of contemporary criticism, and each leads to a different understanding of what art is and does. Both a cogent overview of the state of thinking about art and a challenge to think outside the art historical box, Master Narratives and t. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 192 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781135872571 1135872570 9780203699713 0203699718 1135872562 9781135872564 |