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The recording machine : art and fact during the Cold War / Joshua Shannon.
Author
Shannon, Joshua, 1972-
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Language
English
Published/Created
New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2017]
©2017
Description
ix, 230 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
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Marquand Library - Photography
N6494.R4 S435 2017
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Realism in art
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Photo-realism
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Cold War in art
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Art, Modern
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20th century
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Summary note
A revealing look at the irrevocable change in art during the 1960s and its relationship to the modern culture of fact This refreshing and erudite book offers a new understanding of the transformation of photography and the visual arts around 1968. Author Joshua Shannon reveals an oddly stringent realism in the period, tracing artists' rejection of essential truths in favor of surface appearances. Dubbing this tendency factualism, Shannon illuminates not only the Cold War's preoccupation with data but also the rise of a pervasive culture of fact. Focusing on the United States and West Germany, where photodocumentary traditions intersected with 1960s politics, Shannon investigates a broad variety of art, ranging from conceptual photography and earthworks to photorealist painting and abstraction. He looks closely at art by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Robert Bechtle, Vija Celmins, Douglas Huebler, Gerhard Richter, and others. These artists explored fact's role as a modern paradigm for talking, thinking, and knowing. Their art, Shannon concludes, helps to explain both the ambivalent anti-humanism of today's avant-garde art and our own culture of fact.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-222) and index.
Contents
The turn from truth
Machine : conceptual photography
Matter : art in the desert
Surface : photorealist painting
System : Gerhard Richter
The lasting problem of realism.
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ISBN
9780300187274 ((hardback))
0300187270 ((hardback))
LCCN
2016948564
OCLC
961312415
Other standard number
40027234764
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