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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 709 EAN: 9780300076493 ISBN: 0300076495 Label: Yale University Press Manufacturer: Yale University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: September 10, 1998 Publisher: Yale University Press Studio: Yale University Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Must avant-garde art hold itself apart from the values and beliefs widely held in the common culture? Must advanced artists always be the symbolic adversaries of the ordinary citizen? These questions have dominated, even paralyzed the modern art world, particularly in recent years when perceived elitism and imposed canons of taste have come under fire from all sides. In this stimulating book, a prominent art historian shows that the links between advanced art and modern mass culture have always been robust, indeed necessary to both. Thomas Crow focuses on the continual interdependence between the two phenomena, providing examples that range from Paris in the mid-nineteenth century to the latest revivals of Conceptual art in the 1990s. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Good guide through treacherous territoryI personally hate modernist art theory with a passion *BUT* since there is a need to navigate this terrain, Thomas Crow's book provides an excellent overview. He cuts through the BS and explains how we got to where we are in the art world - including why art criticism seems less and less interested in any actual art. Or being understood by the general public. Difficult reading nonetheless. Rating:  - Forbiddingly DifficultThis book consists of a collection of eleven essays on modern art in the common culture. Chapters touch on Warhol, the New York School, Hank Herron, Artforum, pastoralism in recent art, and comparable subjects. On page 185, Crow refers to the increasing "tendency of critics to assert their prerogatives by cultivating a forbiddingly difficult language." Crow himself is a learned critic of modern art and its relations to the common culture. However, his book unfortunately is an exemplar ... Read More Rating:  - Hope for artIs contemporary art dead? Amidst the onslaught of all the -isms and in a life-world in which art and life seem so removed: is art dead today? Crow doesn't think so and he offers a selection of observations of specific artistic practices that illuminate the vitality of art in our culture today: yes, it still speaks and it still responds. There is still hope. There is a great reading of Warhol's "Disasters" in its social and historical context. You might just take another look at ... Read More 
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