The political aesthetics of the Armenian avant-garde
The journey of the ‘painterly real', 1987–2004
Series edited by Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon, Angela Harutyunyan
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Angela Harutyunyan is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Theory at the American University of Beirut. Dorothy C. Rowe is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Bristol.
Manchester University Press
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date February 2017
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780719089534
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 75 GBP
- Pages344
- ReadershipCollege/Tertiary Education
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions234 x 156 mm
- Illustration9 colour illustrations, 48 black & white illustrations
- Biblio NotesIntroduction 1. Between the ideal and a hard place: the conceptual horizons of the avant-garde in Armenia 2. The 'painterly real' of contemporary art: resurrected ghosts, living heroes and saintly saviours on the 3rd Floor, 1987-94 3. Suspending the 'painterly real': ACT's procedures of pure creation, 1993-6 4. The revenge of the painterly: national post-conceptualism, 1995-8 5. The reign of the 'painterly real' and the politics of crisis, 1999-2004 Index
- SeriesRethinking Art's Histories