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Abstract Art Against Autonomy

Abstract Art Against Autonomy Infection, Resistance, and Cure Since the 60S

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Publisher's Synopsis

In Abstract Art Against Autonomy, Mark Cheetham provides a revolutionary account of abstraction in the visual arts since the decline of the formalist paradigms in the 1960s. He claims that abstract work remains a vital contributor to contemporary visual culture, but that it performs in a way that is different from its predecessors of the early and mid-twentieth century and cannot adequately be assessed without new models of understanding. Cheetham posits that abstraction has reacted to paradigms of purity with practices of impurity. By examining abstract art since the 1960s within a narrative of infection, resistance and cure, Cheetham provides an opportunity to rethink paradigmatic genres - the monochrome and the mirror - and to link in new ways the work of artists whose work extends and complicates the tradition of abstract art, including Yves Klein, Robert Rauschenberg, James Turrell, Gerhard Richter, Peter Halley, General Idea and Taras Polataiko.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780521842068
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 709.04052
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 177
Weight: 622g
Height: 262mm
Width: 186mm
Spine width: 16mm