The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths by Rosalind E. Krauss - ISBN: 9780262610469
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Deconstructing art history: myths of modernism, seeds of postmodernism.

The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths

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    319 pages

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    9 July 1986

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Summary

Co-founder and co-editor of October magazine, a veteran of Artforum of the 1960s and early 1970s, Rosalind Krauss has presided over and shared in the major formulation of the theory of postmodernism.

In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October, she explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has forced a change in our various understandings of twentieth-century art, beginning wi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262610469
ISBN-10:0262610469
Author:Rosalind E. Krauss
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:319
Edition:New edition
Release Date:9 July 1986
Weight:499g
Dimensions:229mm x 175mm x 18mm
Series:The MIT Press
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Critics Review

All of her observations are unfailingly original and provocative.

All of her observations are unfailingly original and provocative.

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About The Author

Rosalind E. Krauss

Rosalind E. Krauss is University Professor in the Department of Art History at Columbia University, where, from 1995 to 2006, she held the Meyer Schapiro Chair in Modern Art and Theory. She is a founding editor of October and the author of Passages in Modern Sculpture, The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Myths, The Optical Unconscious, Bachelors, Perpetual Inventory, Under Blue Cup, and other books.

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