Routledge Art After Appropriation: Essays on Art in the 1990s

Explore the complex landscape of contemporary art through Art After Appropriation: Essays on Art in the 1990s. Published by Routledge, this collection provides a detailed examination of the discourse of appropriation that shaped the art world from the late 1970s through the 1980s and into the following decade. This book offers a unique chronological structure, with chapters loosely correlated to each year between 1989 and 1999. Readers can trace how cultural shifts influenced artistic expression, such as how the dissolution of the Soviet Union around 1989 created new visibility for photography within the Second World culture. The text examines various themes, including how artists crossed genres like ethnography, documentary, and travel with fictive performance. This volume serves as a significant resource for those studying the history of art, the evolution of citation and taking in culture, and the specific shifts in global art movements during a transformative decade.