The Widening Circle

The Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art

• Author(s): Barry Schwabsky,
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 252
• ISBN_10: 0521565693
  ISBN_13: 9780521565691
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / General , Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) ,

Description:... In this collection of critical essays the well-known critic Barry Schwabsky reexamines the art produced since the 1960s, demonstrating how the achievements of "high modernism" remain consequential to it, through tensions among representation, abstraction, and pictorial language. With the core of the book focused on Michelangelo Pistoletto and Mel Bochner, Schwabsky also studies the work of emerging artists who also continue to examine modernism's legacies.