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The New Monuments and the End of Man : U.S. Sculpture between War and Peace, 1945-1975 /

How leading American artists reflected on the fate of humanity in the nuclear era through monumental sculptureIn the wake of the atomic bombings of Japan in 1945, artists in the United States began to question what it meant to create a work of art in a world where humanity could be rendered extinct...

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Autor principal: Slifkin, Robert (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: MONUMENTALISM AND METHOD; CHAPTER ONE: THE NEW SENSE OF FATE; CHAPTER TWO: SCULPTURE AND THE WEAPON; CHAPTER THREE: NEW MONUMENTS AND REVERSED RUINS; CHAPTER FOUR: THE CREDIBILITY GAP; CHAPTER FIVE: THE EMPTY ROOM; NOTES; INDEX; ARTWORK/PHOTO CREDITS