Résumé : The African diaspora – a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism – has generated a wide array of artistic achievements, from blues and reggae, to the paintings of the pioneering African American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner and video creations of contemporary hip-hop artists. This book concentrates on how these works, often created during times of major social upheaval and transformation, use black culture both as a subject and as context. From musings on “the souls of black folk” in late nineteenth-century art, to questions of racial and cultural identities in performance, media, and computer-assisted arts in the twenty-first century, this book examines the philosophical and social forces that have shaped a black presence in modern and contemporary visual culture. Now updated, this new edition helps us understand better how the first two decades of the twenty-first century have been a transformative moment in which previous assumptions about race, difference, and identity have been irrevocably altered, with art providing a useful lens through which to think about these compelling issues.

Résumé : American Art 1961-2001takes a completely new look at the history of modern art in the United States between two decisive moments in wider American history, the Vietnam War and the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers, through an extraordinary selection of works by celebrated artists like Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Barbara Kruger, Robert Mapplethorpe, Bruce Nauman, Cindy Sherman, Robert Rauschenberg, Kara Walker and Andy Warhol. The volume examines the richness and diversity of themes and currents in American art over the space of forty years, from modernist abstraction to contamination with mass production, from conceptual research and performance to demands for civil rights, through an extraordinary selection of more than eighty works of painting, photography, video and sculpture, as well as installations, from the collection of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, one of the most important museums of contemporary art in the world. Probing the very notion of the work of art, the volume investigates its relationship with the changes in contemporary society. Several generations of American artists have experimented with languages that are in fact open to a redefinition of the boundaries of art, combining different techniques and media and using the power of art as a means of tackling themes like consumer society and mass production, feminism and gender identity, questions of race and the struggle for civil rights.

Résumé : In 1965, British artist John Jones left the UK with his young family to live in the USA. There they settled in Greenwich Village, New York, and spent several months on a road trip west, seeking out artists and interviewing as many as they could. All revealed something unique about their work and practice. Many spoke of the times they were living in – 1960s America, a political and cultural crucible. Some (Claes Oldenburg and Yoko Ono, for instance) became Jones’s personal friends. Published here for the first time, this book presents a fascinating selection of Jones’s conversations with those artists, as chosen by his daughter, Nicolette. This is the story of art presented not through the filter of art critics, but from the mouths of the practitioners. Featuring an array of wellknown voices, including Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Louise Bourgeois, Lee Krasner, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, The American Art Tapes offers an intimate portrait of the American art scene in the mid 1960s – a pivotal moment in twentieth-century art – and the thinking that gave rise to one of the most fertile creative periods in our recent history.

Résumé : La première étude consacrée au mouvement de l'art écologique et environnemental américain.Comment un mouvement artistique entièrement consacré à l'écologie et apparu aux États-Unis au cours des années 1960 a-t-il pu passer pratiquement inaperçu jusqu'à aujourd'hui ? Telle est la question au cœur de cet ouvrage qui retrace les conditions d'émergence et le développement de corpus entièrement dédiés à la cause environnementale.Entre découvertes et nécessaires mises au point définitionnelles, Bénédicte Ramade procède à des analyses plurifactorielles, révise les faux-semblants et affirme ainsi le caractère précurseur de cet Art écologique au regard de l'Anthropocène. Dans cette nouvelle perspective théorique et culturelle, le potentiel visionnaire et l'inventivité des démarches d'Agnes Denes, Joe Hanson, Helen Mayer Harrison et Newton Harrison, Patricia Johanson, Bonnie Ora Sherk, Alan Sonfist et encore Mierle Laderman Ukeles prend une envergure inédite. Premier ouvrage à être dédié à ce mouvement, Vers un art anthropocène. L'Art écologique américain pour prototype postule une histoire singulière et un cadre théorique essentiels à la compréhension des enjeux de l'écologie dans les pratiques artistiques actuelles.

Résumé : Panorama des oeuvres d'artistes américains représentant le ciel, de Thomas Cole à George Bellows en passant par Winslow Homer, Albert Ryder ou Georgia O'Keeffe. Les questions esthétiques, religieuses, littéraires, culturelles et politiques liées à ce thème sont notamment abordées. ©Electre 2023

Résumé : La Pictures Generation désigne un courant esthétique dans lequel les artistes s'imprègnent de la publicité et du cinéma pour mettre en lumière les normes et les stéréotypes véhiculés par les médias. Cet ouvrage aborde les caractéristiques de ce mouvement porté notamment par Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince ou Louise Lawler. ©Electre 2023

Résumé : Un recueil de textes de l'historienne et critique états-unienne, célèbre pour son ouvrage American art since 1900 publié en 1967. Elle recontextualise les oeuvres et les artistes dans une histoire et une tradition culturelle, replaçant la créativité des Etats-Unis dans un mouvement occidental plus large. ©Electre 2023

Résumé : Beginning in the 1920s, Upper Manhattan became the center of an explosion of art, writing, and ideas that has since become legendary. But what we now know as the Harlem Renaissance, the first movement of international modern art led by African Americans, extended far beyond New York City. This volume reexamines the Harlem Renaissance as part of a global flowering of Black creativity, with roots in the New Negro theories and aesthetics of Alain Locke, its founding philosopher, as well as the writings of W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston. Featuring artists such as Aaron Douglas, Charles Henry Alston, Augusta Savage, and William H. Johnson, who synthesized the expressive figuration of the European avant-garde with the aesthetics of African sculpture and folk art to render all aspects of African American city life, this publication also includes works by lesser known contributors, including Laura Wheeler Waring and Samuel Joseph Brown, Jr., who took a more classical approach to depicting Black subjects with dignity, interiority, and gravitas. The works of New Negro artists active abroad are also examined in juxtaposition with those of their European and international African diasporan peers, from Germaine Casse and Ronald Moody to Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch, and Pablo Picasso. This reframing of a celebrated cultural phenomenon shows how the flow of ideas through Black artistic communities on both sides of the Atlantic contributed to international conversations around art, race, and identity while helping to define our notion of modernism.