Signifying Art: Essays on Art After 1960

by Marjorie Welish

Book Overview

Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960 considers the work of a generation of respondants to the New York School, including Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly, who reintroduced pictorialism and verbal content in their paintings and assemblages. Their work, Marjorie Welish argues, often alludes to the history of art and culture. Also examined are the works of Minimal and Conceptual artists, particularly Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt, who...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521633931
• ISBN13: 9780521633932
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"