Author: Ferguson, Russell and William Olander, et al.
Title: Discourses: Conversations in Postmodern Art and Culture
Description: Cambridge / New York, The New Museum of Contemporary Art / The MIT Press, 1990. Hardcover. black boards w/ gilt spine printing. illustrated pastedowns & endpapers. 471 pgs w/ bw illustrations. glossy illustrated dustjacket. These highly polemical discourses document the critical ideas and strategies that characterize the culture of the 1980s and record the dialectical means through which these ideas and strategies were formulated. Engaging more than 80 artists, theorists, and critics from a variety of fields, the conversations touch on numerous topics of current contention: the relationship between theory and artistic production, the role of art in the community, the meaning of postmodernism, the effects of representation on racial and sexual stereotypes, the relationship between high art and popular culture, and the responsibilities of art institutions. Among the discussants are Michel Foucault, Fredric Jameson, Edward Said, Tim Rollins, Greil Marcus, Ethyl Eichelberger, Douglas Crimp, Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Gayatri Spivak and Laurie Anderson.--Amazon. VG (scratches & scuffs to boards; bump to spine end. pgs clean & bright. dustjacket lower edge curled; scuffed & scratched; light foxing to interior) .

Keywords: Postmodern Theory ; Postmodern Theory ; ;