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The New Monuments and the End of Man : U.S. Sculpture between War and Peace, 1945–1975 / Robert Slifkin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) : 103 b/w illusContent type:
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  • 9780691192529
  • 9780691194264
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 730.97309/044 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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