TY  - BOOK
AU  - Slifkin,Robert
TI  - The New Monuments and the End of Man: U.S. Sculpture between War and Peace, 1945–1975 
SN  - 9780691192529
U1  - 730.97309/044 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Monuments
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Public sculpture, American
KW  - ART / Art & Politics
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KW  - ARTnews
KW  - Abstract expressionism
KW  - Adolph Gottlieb
KW  - Aesthetic Theory
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KW  - Allan Kaprow
KW  - Allusion
KW  - Andy Warhol
KW  - Anthropomorphism
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KW  - Barnett Newman
KW  - Broken Obelisk
KW  - Buckminster Fuller
KW  - Carl Andre
KW  - Chinati Foundation
KW  - Claes Oldenburg
KW  - Clark Art Institute
KW  - Classicism
KW  - Clement Greenberg
KW  - Contemporary art
KW  - Cubism
KW  - Curator
KW  - Dan Flavin
KW  - Dan Graham
KW  - Dia Art Foundation
KW  - Donald Judd
KW  - Dr. Strangelove
KW  - Erwin Panofsky
KW  - Evocation
KW  - Fairfield Porter
KW  - Figurative art
KW  - Fine art
KW  - Frank O'Hara
KW  - Fredric Jameson
KW  - Harold Rosenberg
KW  - Herbert Ferber
KW  - Herbert Marcuse
KW  - Iconography
KW  - Ideology
KW  - Illustration
KW  - Isamu Noguchi
KW  - Jackson Pollock
KW  - James Rosenquist
KW  - Jasper Johns
KW  - Jean Tinguely
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KW  - Land art
KW  - Lawrence Alloway
KW  - Lee Bontecou
KW  - Leo Steinberg
KW  - Lynn Hershman Leeson
KW  - MIT Press
KW  - Mark Rothko
KW  - Max Ernst
KW  - Michael Asher (artist)
KW  - Michael Fried
KW  - Minimalism
KW  - Modern sculpture
KW  - Modernism
KW  - Modernity
KW  - National Gallery of Art
KW  - Newsweek
KW  - Nuclear weapon
KW  - Obsolescence
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KW  - Paul Thek
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KW  - Philip K. Dick
KW  - Photography
KW  - Postmodernism
KW  - Primary Structures (1966 exhibition)
KW  - Primitivism
KW  - Richard Serra
KW  - Robert Goldwater
KW  - Robert Rauschenberg
KW  - Robert Smithson
KW  - Ronald Bladen
KW  - Roy Lichtenstein
KW  - Sculpture
KW  - Sense of Place
KW  - Skepticism
KW  - Smithsonian Institution
KW  - Surrealism
KW  - Technology
KW  - The New York Times
KW  - University of California Press
KW  - Visual art of the United States
KW  - Visual arts
KW  - Vulgarity
KW  - Walter Benjamin
KW  - Welding
KW  - Whitney Museum of American Art
KW  - William Anastasi
KW  - Work of art
KW  - World War II
KW  - Writing
KW  - Yves Tanguy
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION: MONUMENTALISM AND METHOD --; CHAPTER ONE: THE NEW SENSE OF FATE --; CHAPTER TWO: SCULPTURE AND THE WEAPON --; CHAPTER THREE: NEW MONUMENTS AND REVERSED RUINS --; CHAPTER FOUR: THE CREDIBILITY GAP --; CHAPTER FIVE: THE EMPTY ROOM --; NOTES --; INDEX --; ARTWORK/PHOTO CREDITS; restricted access
N2  - How leading American artists reflected on the fate of humanity in the nuclear era through monumental sculptureIn the wake of the atomic bombings of Japan in 1945, artists in the United States began to question what it meant to create a work of art in a world where humanity could be rendered extinct by its own hand. The New Monuments and the End of Man examines how some of the most important artists of postwar America revived the neglected tradition of the sculptural monument as a way to grapple with the cultural and existential anxieties surrounding the threat of nuclear annihilation.Robert Slifkin looks at such iconic works as the industrially evocative welded steel sculptures of David Smith, the austere structures of Donald Judd, and the desolate yet picturesque earthworks of Robert Smithson. Transforming how we understand this crucial moment in American art, he traces the intersections of postwar sculptural practice with cybernetic theory, science-fiction cinema and literature, and the political debates surrounding nuclear warfare. Slifkin identifies previously unrecognized affinities of the sculpture of the 1940s and 1950s with the minimalism and land art of the 1960s and 1970s, and acknowledges the important contributions of postwar artists who have been marginalized until now, such as Raoul Hague, Peter Grippe, and Robert Mallary.Strikingly illustrated throughout, The New Monuments and the End of Man spans the decades from Hiroshima to the Fall of Saigon, when the atomic bomb cast its shadow over American art
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691194264?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691194264
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