Postmodern Perspectives: Issues in Contemporary Art

For use in upper-level undergraduate and graduate Art History courses in Criticism and Theory of Contemporary Art, as well as Critical Methods of Contemporary Art Writing.

Exploring the relationship between contemporary art, culture, and society, this book offers students a guide to the general structure and focus of Postmodern critical discourse, preparing them to understand the origins, theories, and interrelated ideas of Postmodern art and art criticism within a broader social and political context. Insightful and enlightening, it organizes material into six groups of essays-each centering around a specific idea/issue and delineating the main philosophical, theoretical, and critical approaches that have shaped criticism in the Postmodern period.