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• Title:Interplay : neo-geo [crossed out] neoconceptual art of the 1980s / Amy L. Brandt.
  
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• Variant Title:Neoconceptual art of the 1980s
  
• Author/Creator:Brandt, Amy L., 1978-
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N6512.5.N35 B73 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Neo-geo (Art)
  
• Description:x, 224 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"Emerging from New York's East Village art scene of the 1980s, the so-called neo-geo artists were a loosely associated group that included the painters Ashley Bickerton, Peter Halley, Sherrie Levine, Allan McCollum, Philip Taaffe, and Meyer Vaisman and the sculptors Jeff Koons and Haim Steinbach. Labeled neo-geo for the abstract geometric motifs that characterized only some of their work, the movement was also known variously as simulationism, neoconceptualism, neo-pop, neominimalism, and postabstraction. In this, the first in-depth study of the group, Amy Brandt argues that neoconceptualism is the most precise name for their work. Brandt sees it as an art about art history, characterized by ironic adaptations of past artistic movements and styles, a tendency toward visual interplay, and a theoretical impulse driven by postmodern concerns with intertextuality, deconstruction, and poststructuralism. Brandt investigates the East Village art scene of the 1980s and argues that the neoconceptualists' theoretical orientation distinguished them from other artists of the era. She traces the divergence in art critics' responses to the group's work and charts their market success. Brandt examines in detail the references to art history found in the work; she explores the group's formal connections to pop, minimalism, and conceptualism; and she investigates the relationships between the neoconceptual artists and another loosely connected group of artists, the Pictures generation."--Publisher's description.
  
• Notes:The word "Neo-Geo" in other title information appears with a line through it.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780262027533 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  0262027534 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Introduction: Neoconceptualism's various labels
  Neoconceptualism, the East Village scene, and the influx of critical theory
  Neoconceptual artists in New York and the East Village scene
  Critical theory in the New York art world
  Neoconceptualism's theoretical underpinnings
  Ashley Bickerton's paradigms of painting
  Allan McCollum and the power of banal painting
  Philip Taaffe's endgame art
  Sherrie Levine and the multidimensionality of appropriated space
  Neoconceptualism and pop
  American sign painters
  Art as consumer good: from the Brillo box to alarm clocks and lava lamps
  From highbrow to lowbrow: neoconceptualism, class, and race politics
  Neoconceptualism, minimalism, and conceptualism
  Jeff Koons and good design
  Peter Halley's hyperbolic minimalism
  Neoconceptualism and the Pictures Group.