Rites Of Passage: Art For The End Of The Century
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the threshold of a millennium, Rites of Passage: Art for the End of the Century captures the urgent, disquieting energy of late twentieth-century contemporary art, presenting a landmark survey of works that confront transformation, mortality, identity, and the human condition with unflinching boldness. Curated and authored by Stuart Morgan and Frances Morris for the Tate Gallery, this volume chronicles a pivotal 1995 exhibition that brought together an internationally acclaimed roster of artists — including Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, and Kiki Smith — whose work interrogates the thresholds we cross in life, death, and cultural identity. With additional contributions from Stephen Greenblatt, Julia Kristeva, and Charles Penwarden, the text situates these visceral, often confrontational artworks within rich literary, psychoanalytic, and anthropological frameworks, illustrating how the idea of the rite of passage resonates across disciplines and centuries. The writing is precise yet evocative, marrying rigorous critical thought with an accessibility that makes the volume as valuable to the general reader as to the art scholar. A testament to art's power to bear witness to the human experience at its most liminal, this collection leaves the reader questioning which threshold they themselves stand upon.
Author: Stuart Morgan And Frances Morris
Format: Paperback
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the threshold of a millennium, Rites of Passage: Art for the End of the Century captures the urgent, disquieting energy of late twentieth-century contemporary art, presenting a landmark survey of works that confront transformation, mortality, identity, and the human condition with unflinching boldness. Curated and authored by Stuart Morgan and Frances Morris for the Tate Gallery, this volume chronicles a pivotal 1995 exhibition that brought together an internationally acclaimed roster of artists — including Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, and Kiki Smith — whose work interrogates the thresholds we cross in life, death, and cultural identity. With additional contributions from Stephen Greenblatt, Julia Kristeva, and Charles Penwarden, the text situates these visceral, often confrontational artworks within rich literary, psychoanalytic, and anthropological frameworks, illustrating how the idea of the rite of passage resonates across disciplines and centuries. The writing is precise yet evocative, marrying rigorous critical thought with an accessibility that makes the volume as valuable to the general reader as to the art scholar. A testament to art's power to bear witness to the human experience at its most liminal, this collection leaves the reader questioning which threshold they themselves stand upon.