New Games: Postmodernism After Contemporary Art

by Lee, Pamela M.

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Title Statements

Full title :New Games : Postmodernism After Contemporary Art / Pamela M. Lee ; With an introduction by Johanna Burton.

Summary

"Pamela M. Lee's New games revisits postmodernism in light of art history's more recent embrace of 'the contemporary.' What can the theories and practices associated with postmodernism tell us about the obsession with the contemporary in both the academy and the art world? In looking at work by Dara Birnbaum, Öyvind Fahlström and Richard Serra, among others, Lee returns to Jean-Francois Lyotard's canonical text The Postmodern Condition as a means to understand more recent art-critical interests in interactivity, collectivism and neo-liberalism. She reads Lyotard's well-known treatment of language games relative to the game theory associated with the Cold War and the rise of the information society. New Games asks readers to think critically about our recent past and the embattled state of our contemporary preoccupations. With a critical introduction by Johanna Burton, New Games is the fourth and penultimate volume in Routledge's series of short books on the theories of modernism by leading art historians on twentieth-century art and art criticism."--Provided by publisher.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

Notes

Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxxi, 251 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

oclc:on1341312889
LC Classification:N6494.P66
Dewey Decimal:709.04

Postmodernism, an incomplete project -- Postmodernism after "the contemporary" -- New games -- Game show -- Mixed hopes, mixed strategies.

Subjects

1900-talet ART -- History Art and Design Art criticism -- History -- 20th century Art, American -- 20th century Art, Modern -- 20th century Art, Modern -- 21st century Konst Postmodernism Postmodernisme SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies