New Games: Postmodernism After Contemporary Art

Pamela M. Lee’s New Games revisits postmodernism in light of art history’s more recent embrace of “the contemporary”. What can the theories and practices associated with postmodernism tell us about the obsession with the contemporary in both the academy and the art world? In looking at work by Dara Birnbaum, Oyvind Fahlstrom and Richard Serra, among others, Lee returns to Jean-Francois Lyotard’s canonical text The Postmodern Condition as a means to understand more recent art-critical interests in interactivity, collectivism and neo-liberalism. She reads Lyotard’s well-known treatment of language games relative to the game theory associated with the Cold War and the rise of the information society. New Games asks readers to think critically about our recent past and the embattled state of our contemporary preoccupations.

Details

Type

Book

Place of publication

New York City

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2013

Number of pages

252 pages

Language

English

ISBN

9780415988803

Open stacks or available on request

Available on request

Illustrations

Yes

Bibliography

No

UDC code and author sign

701.2 Lee

Volumes

1

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