Interplay: Neo-Geo Neoconceptual Art of the 1980s (MIT Press) Emerging from New York's East Village art scene of the 1980s, the so-called neo-geo artists were a loosely associated group that included the painters Ashley Bickerton, Peter Halley, Sherrie Levine, A
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| Title | : | Interplay: Neo-Geo Neoconceptual Art of the 1980s (MIT Press) |
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (338 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262027534 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-03 |
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Emerging from New York's East Village art scene of the 1980s, the so-called neo-geo artists were a loosely associated group that included the painters Ashley Bickerton, Peter Halley, Sherrie Levine, Allan McCollum, Philip Taaffe, and Meyer Vaisman and the sculptors Jeff Koons and Haim Steinbach. Labeled neo-geo for the abstract geometric motifs that characterized only some of their work, the movement was also known variously as simulationism, neoconceptualism, neo-pop, neominimalism, and postabstraction. In this, the first in-depth study of the group, Amy Brandt argues that neoconceptualism is the most precise name for their work. Brandt sees it as an art about art history, characterized by ironic adaptations of past artistic movements and styles, a tendency toward visual interplay, and a theoretical impulse driven by postmodern concerns with intertextuality, deconstruction, and poststructuralism.Brandt investigates the East Village art scene of the 1980s and argues that the neoconcept
Editorial : Replacing the usual misnomer 'neo-geo,' Amy Brandt's 'neoconceptualism,' another period term for the 1980s-era art she investigates, focuses on a highly formal inversion of 1960s and '70s conceptual art, predicated on French poststructuralist theories and an awareness of late capitalist and emerging global economies. Her book provides a needed perspective on a highly important, yet far too little researched and understood period in the 1980s when high art, popular culture, commodification, and politics were inextricably linked together.
(Robert Hobbs, The Rhoda Thalhimer Endowed Chair of American Art, Virginia Commonwealth University)
Interplay is the definitive guide to the movement formerly known as neo-geo. Amy Brandt traces the development of neoconceptual art across the 1980s with a combination of critical rigor and pleasurable accessibility. Interplay is a must-read for anyone who cares about contemporary art and its history."
(Richard
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