Art : Action and Participation
  • critical theory
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 25 x 22.5 cm.
  • 296 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0814765637

Art : Action and Participation

Frank Popper

Art : Action and Participation

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"Art : Action and Participation is an analysis of twentieth century art in a crucial phase. The final breakdown of the modernist tradition is witnessing the birth of an entirely new role for art as an integral element of our society, available to all : in short, a democratic art. The first half of the book surveys all aspects of recent art : new ways of making the spectator part of the work, and the use of new media, which often involves working on an architectural scale. These environments will necessarily be an essential contribution to any art that is democratic. The author then discusses new directions in theater, ballet, cinema, television, video, poetry, music, and mixed-media events. His scope is international, embracing, among others, work from North America, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and South America. In the second half of the book, Popper analyzes the roots of public creativity and the relationship between art, science, technology and creativity, and ends by surveying the recent movements in painting and sculpture which point the way to a democratic art." -- publisher's statement. Illustrated in black-and-white.

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