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Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist  
Author: Caroline A. Jones
ISBN: 0226406482
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book Description
Taking a fresh look at the art world of the 1960s, Caroline Jones argues that far from the countercultural stance associated with the decade, the artists she examines--including Stella, Warhol, and Smithson--identified their work with postwar industry and corporate culture. Drawing on extensive interviews with artists and their assistants as well as close readings of artworks, Jones explains that much of the major work of the 1960s was compelling precisely because it was central to the visual and economic culture of its time.

"Jones manages to analyze art works in their historical, political, and conceptual context, giving them a thickness of description rarely possible in standard art history. . . . This is one of the best books on the period I have read so far. To paraphrase Clement Greenberg, it gives contemporary art history a good name."--Serge Guilbaut, Bookforum

"Though we are some 30 years past the events of the '60s, our world is still largely responding to them, as this marvelous book amply demonstrates."--David McCarthy, New Art Examiner








Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Taking a fresh look at the art world of the 1960s, Caroline Jones explores the pervasive imagery of the American artist at work and the implications of those images for understanding their art. The radical break of artists with Abstract Expressionism at the end of the 1950s demonstrates the traditional modernist view of the solitary, suffering artist did not seduce those who came of age in the burgeoning American economy of the 1960s. Jones argues that far from the countercultural stance associated with the decade, the artists examined here - including Stella, Warhol, and Smithson - identified their work with postwar industry and corporate culture and revealed the anxieties of this identification through the slippages and darker implications of their work. Drawing on extensive interviews with artists and their assistants as well as close readings of artworks, Jones explains that much of the major work of the 1960s was compelling precisely because it was "mainstream" - central to the visual and economic culture of its time.

FROM THE CRITICS

Serge Guilbaut - Bookforum

Well-researched and theoretically fascinating.... this is one of the best books on the period I have read so far. To pararphrase Clement Greenberg, it gives contemporary art history a good name.

Booknews

Taking a fresh look at the art world of the 60's, the author argues that far from the counterculture stance associated with the decade, the artists examined hereincluding Stella, Warhol, and Smithsonidentified their work with postwar industry and corporate culture and related the anxieties of this identification through the darker implications of the work. She explains that much of the major work of the 1960s was compelling precisely because it was mainstream. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

     



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