The recording machine : art and fact during the Cold War /

A revealing look at the irrevocable change in art during the 1960s and its relationship to the modern culture of fact. This refreshing and erudite book offers a new understanding of the transformation of photography and the visual arts around 1968. Author Joshua Shannon reveals an oddly stringent re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Shannon, Joshua, 1972- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Realism in art. Cold War in art. Art, Modern > History > 20th century > Themes, motives.

Table of Contents:

The turn from truth
Machine : conceptual photography
Matter : art in the desert
Surface : photorealist painting
System : Gerhard Richter
The lasting problem of realism.