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Experiments in modern realism : world making, politics and the everyday in postwar European and American art /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Potts, Alex
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Painting, European > 20th century.
Painting, American > 20th century.
Realism in art > Europe.
Realism in art > United States.
Painting > Political aspects > Europe > History > 20th century.
Painting > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • The case for realism
  • The new painting in America
  • Vernacular modernism in postwar Europe
  • New brutalism and the 'as found'
  • New realism and pop art
  • Composite painting
  • Assemblages and world making
  • Art and life: happenings
  • Hybrid practices and political art.