The New Monuments and the End of Man : : U.S. Sculpture between War and Peace, 1945–1975 /

The New Monuments and the End of Man : : U.S. Sculpture between War and Peace, 1945–1975 / / Robert Slifkin.

How leading American artists reflected on the fate of humanity in the nuclear era through monumental sculptureIn the wake of the atomic bombings of Japan in 1945, artists in the United States began to question what it meant to create a work of art in a world where humanity could be rendered extinct...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Architecture and Design 2019
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Slifkin, Robert,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 103 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: MONUMENTALISM AND METHOD
  • CHAPTER ONE: THE NEW SENSE OF FATE
  • CHAPTER TWO: SCULPTURE AND THE WEAPON
  • CHAPTER THREE: NEW MONUMENTS AND REVERSED RUINS
  • CHAPTER FOUR: THE CREDIBILITY GAP
  • CHAPTER FIVE: THE EMPTY ROOM
  • NOTES
  • INDEX
  • ARTWORK/PHOTO CREDITS

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