The Originality Of The Avant-Garde And Other Modernist Myths by Rosalind E. Krauss

In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October , Rosalind Krauss explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has forced a change in our various understandings of twentieth-century art, beginning with the almost mythic idea of the avant-garde. Krauss uses the analytical tools of semiology, structuralism, and poststructuralism to reveal new meanings in the visual arts and to critique the way other prominent practitioners of art and literary history write about art. In two sections, "Modernist Myths" and "Toward Postmodernism," her essays range from the problem of the grid in painting and the unity of Giacometti's sculpture to the works of Jackson Pollock, Sol Lewitt, and Richard Serra, and observations about major trends in contemporary literary criticism.

Publisher:	MIT Press
Year:	1986
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9780262610469
Condition:	Fair
Description:	Ex Library. Cover sun-faded, otherwise quite good throughout.

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SKU: 1588795
Location: Art