Imagining the present
Subtitle: context, content, and the role of the critic
By: Lawrence Alloway ; edited and with a critical commentary by Richard Kalina.
Contributors: Kalina, Richard.
Series: Critical voices in art, theory and culture
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780415391467; 9780415391672
Subjects: Modernism (Art); Art, Modern -- 20th century; Art criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-294) and index.
Table of contents: title: Quick symbols; title: Technology and sex in science fiction: a note on cover art; title: Design as a human activity; title: Personal statement; title: The arts and the mass media; title: The long front of culture; title: City notes; title: Artists as consumers; title: Junk culture  $1! @(BPop art$1 (B since 1949; title: Six painters and the object; title: The American sublime; title: The critic and the visual arts; title: Art and the communications network; title: Systemic painting; title: Art and the expanding audience; title: Pop art: the words; title: The spectrum of monochrome; title: Position paper; title: Anthropology and art criticism; title: Systems of cross-reference in the arts: on translation; title: On style: an examination of Roy Lichtenstein$1 (Bs development, despite a new monograph on the artist; title: Photo-realism; title: The function of the art critic; title: Artists as writers, Part one: inside information; title: Realism as a problem; title: De Kooning: criticism and Art history; title: The complex present; title: Problems of iconography and style.