title: Modernism in Dispute: Art Since the Forties (Modern Art Practices and Debates)
author: Jonathan Harris
description: This, the final volume in this series discusses how American art evolved from the social realism prevalent during the 1930s to a predominantly abstract art after the war, relates this change to America's growing economic and political dominance of the post-war world, and constrasts the abstraction of American art with the persistently realistic art of France. The authors then review the era of high Modernism in the 1960s and the challenge to Modernism by movements such as Minimal art, Land art, and Conceptual art, and they consider the moves to develop an art of overt social purpose in the wake of widespread criticism of Modernist claims for the autonomy of art. The book concludes by considering the implications of the Postmodernism debate for the practice of art today.
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  Contents
  Cover
  Title Page
  Copyright
  First, let’s consider the WORD…
  PART ONE: THE GENEALOGY OF POSTMODERN ART
  What’s Modern? The Shock of the Old
  Dialectical Antagonism
  What’s MODERNISM?
  Picasso’s Big Bang
  The Crisis of Representation
  Cézanne: the View Contains the Viewer
  The “Science” of Cubism
  The End of Original Art?
  Modern is Postmodern
  The Sublime
  Genealogy of a Modernist tree
  Machine-Aesthetic Optimism
  Constructivism
  Stalinist Totalitarianism
  The Tragic Failure of Abstract Expressionism
  DADA!
  Marcel Duchamp and the Readymades
  The Aura of the Artist
  