After Nihilism : Essays on Contemporary Art

Dickhoff, Wilfried

ISBN 10: 0521592941 / ISBN 13: 9780521592949

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2000

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Synopsis:

In After Nihilism, Wilfried Dickhoff examines the art work of Neo Avant-Garde European and American artists, including Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, and Philip Taaffe. Applying Adorno's concept of negative freedom in the autonomous work of art, he demonstrates how the works of these artists, in which the contradictions and paradoxes of deconstruction/ reconstruction; beauty/ sublime; difference/ indifference; affirmation/ negation; authenticity/cynicism; subject/ non-identity, are never resolved, thus creating images of competing complexities. Tracing the development of the Neo-Avant garde through the 1980s to the present, this collection provides indepth analysis of particular works of art and demonstrates the author's close engagement with and understanding of the contemporary art world.

Book Description: In After Nihilism, Wilfried Dickhoff examines the art work of Neo Avant-Garde European and American artists. Tracing the development of the Neo-Avant garde through the 1980s to the present, this collection provides indepth analysis of particular works of art and demonstrates the author's close engagement with the contemporary art world.

Bibliographic Details

Title: After Nihilism : Essays on Contemporary Art
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good