Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation (Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art)

Some of the best recent art criticism and analytical essays are included in this selection of articles by such noted critics and writers as Roland Barthes, Jorge Luis Borges, Michel Foucault, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, and Martha Rosler. Issues are raised concerning the demise of the modernist movement, theories of the postmodernist movement, the implications of the mass media, cultural politics, and gender and power. This concise survey of contemporary critical thinking is a must for anyone needing to understand recent art and its future directions.