Konst- & designstilar: postmodernism

An illustrated examination of Glenn Ligon's iconic Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988)-a quotation, an appropriated text turned into an artifact.The iconic work Untitled (I Am a Man) …

How aesthetics-understood as a more encompassing framework for human activity-might become the primary discourse for political and social engagement.These essays make the case for …

Postmodernism in the visual arts is not just another 'ism.' It emerged in the 1960s as a transformation of artistic creativity inspired by Duchamp's idea that the artwork does not …

This collection of essays explores the stakes of that seemingly anachronistic comeback. It reframes portraiture as a set of cultural techniques for the dynamic performance of …

Rethinking Postmodernism(s) revisits three historical sites of American literary postmodernism: the early postmodernism of Thomas Pynchon's V. (1961), the emancipatory …

Essays, conversations, and artist portfolios confront questions at the intersection of race, institutional life, and representation.Controversies involving race and the art world …

A close examination of Agnes Martin's grid painting in luminous blue and gold.Agnes Martin's Night Sea (1963) is a large canvas of hand-drawn rectangular grids painted in luminous …

The first sustained examination of a canonical and widely exhibited work by a leading artist of the former Yugoslavia. In Sanja Ivekovic's Triangle (Trokut, 1979), four …

Regarding the Popular charts the complex relationship between the avant-gardes and modernisms on the one hand and popular culture on the other. Covering (neo-)avant-gardists and …

Postmodernism was the defining look of the 1980s. Originating as a rebellious movement in philosophy and literature, and spearheaded by Michael Graves, Robert Venturi, Ettore …