A Companion to Contemporary Art since 1945 Jones Hardback Wiley–Blackwell

A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945Author(s): Amelia Jones\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9781405107945, 978-1405107945\nSynopsis\nA Companion to Contemporary Art is a major survey covering the major works and movements, the most important theoretical developments, and the historical, social, political, and aesthetic issues in contemporary art since 1945, primarily in the Euro-American context.\n\nCollects 27 original essays by expert scholars describing the current state of scholarship in art history and visual studies, and pointing to future directions in the field.\nContains dual chronological and thematic coverage of the major themes in the art of our time: politics, culture wars, public space, diaspora, the artist, identity politics, the body, and visual culture.\nOffers synthetic analysis, as well as new approaches to, debates central to the visual arts since 1945 such as those addressing formalis.