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Arte después de la modernidad (Arte Contemporaneo)

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El derrumbamiento del movimiento moderno en las artes ha suscitado un asombroso repertorio de respuestas artísticas y críticas. Los veinticinco ensayos que recoge Arte después de la modernidad proporcionan una perspectiva general de las direcciones más interesantes que han seguido el arte y la crítica recientes, al abordar temas como el declive de la ideología moderna en las artes o la emergencia de una amplia gama de prácticas artísticas posmodernas. las corrientes actuales en pintura, cine, vídeo y fotografía. las investigaciones de artistas pertenecientes al ámbito de las artes plásticas en torno a los medios de comunicación y el tipo de imágenes que emplean. o la dinámica del tejido social en el que se produce y se difunde el arte. Esta compilación es una guía indispensable para comprender tanto las ideas como los temas que animan el arte contemporáneo, ese giro cultural de gran alcance que se ha dado en llamar posmodernidad.

472 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

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300 reviews193 followers
February 4, 2009
It's been years since I've read it, but it introduced me to all the then-in-fashion thinkers of post-structuralism: Foucault, Baudrillard, Barthes, Benjamin; and the then-in-fashion theoretical critics: Mulvey, Krauss, Foster, Hoberman, etc. And the book even introduced me to the avant-garde writer Kathy Acker. A lot of those articles changed how I approached and thought about art (and the world). It's not easy writing - in fact, most of it was horribly written and filled with jargon - but almost all of the essays were full of interesting and surprising points.

I esp. loved Rosalind Krauss' essay about the myth of the avant garde, and Foucault's essay. Just dive in, pick an essay, and see what you think. Read it the same way you listen to music on an iPod. Skip around, find stuff you like, ignore the other bullshit until you're ready for it.

I can't promise that it's good, and I can promise a lot of annoying writing, but it definitely left a deep impact.
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257 reviews35 followers
January 22, 2014
Praise for Art After Modernism

Wallis has fashioned an open intellectual forum that provides an important critical framework for understanding the art of our time.
—Artforum

One of this book's many virtues is its incitement to hard thinking, its persistent scraping away of naive myths clustered around the art-making enterprise.
—The Village Voice

Clearly the single most useful and provocative document on its subject yet published….
—Artweek
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66 reviews
November 16, 2007
This is a must read...lots of great articles and essays. I got it for a class and instead of skimming, I devoured the entire thing with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
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13 reviews7 followers
July 12, 2008
I can't decide whether I love or hate postmodernist critical theory, and this text only fuels my confusion.
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89 reviews2 followers
December 19, 2022
ayno, larguísimo, formato grande, letras pequeñas, sesudo. Es un libro de consulta porque de otro modo muy difícil de leer de corrido, sólo porque me urgía entregar la reseña y me obligué a terminarlo. Lo bueno es que se aprende mucho y tiene textos muy importantes de la teoría literaria, crítica del arte, etc. etc., y puedes darte una empapada de los que significa la transición de la modernidad a la posmodernidad. Buenísimo para entender el desarrollo del arte contemporáneo y del cine, para ubicar las discusiones teóricas que se dieron en los setenta y ochenta y continúan dando frutos. Es un 10/10 para consulta.
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180 reviews4 followers
January 13, 2022
This has to be one of my favorite books, probably my favorite art related one. The essays on science fiction and on the grid are both amazing and were super eye opening at the time
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November 5, 2025
Es un libro recopilatorio de artículos sobre el arte posmoderno escritos por autores coetáneos o precedentes. R. Krauss; M. Kelly; R. Barthes; H. Foster; J. Baudrillard; W. Benjamín... entre otros/as
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