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This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s

This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s
Library Shelf Location 03.MOLE
Publication Date 2012
Description

Art of the 1980s oscillated between radical and conservative, capricious and political, socially engaged and art-historically aware. This fascinating book chronicles canonical as well as nearly forgotten works of the 1980s, arguing that what has often been dismissed as cynical or ironic should be viewed as a struggle on the part of artists to articulate their needs and desires in an increasingly commodified world. The major developments of the decade - the rise of the commercial art market, the politicization of the AIDS crisis, the increased visibility of women and gay artists and artists of colour, and the ascension of new media - are illuminated in works by Sophie Calle, Nan Goldin, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Sherrie Levine, and Lorna Simpson, among others. Essays by leading scholars provide unique perspectives on the decade's competing factions and seemingly contradictory elements, from counterculture to the mainstream, radicalism to democracy and historical awareness, conservatism to feminist politics. Complete with critical texts on each work, This Will Have Been brings into focus the full impact of the art, artists, and political and cultural ruptures of this paradigm-shifting decade. More than 200 full-colour reproductions of works in a range of media, including drawing, painting, photography, and sculpture, illustrate this ambitious guide to a period of artistic transformation.

ISBN 9780300181104
Quantity 1
Pages 544 pages: 229 x 178 x 30mm
Author Helen Molesworth
Format Paperback
Publishers Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Yale University Press
Category Surveys of Modern & Contemporary Art
Keywords Political art, Women, AIDS (Acquired immune deficiency syndrome), Social issues, Homosexuality
Language English

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