Author

Contributions

  • Bradnock, Lucy, author - Contributor
  • Ryan, Tina Rivers, author - Contributor
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) - Contributor

Publication

2017 - Yale University Press, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

58,750 words, Guess

Page Count

235 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101588396339
  • ISBN-139781588396334
  • Library of Congress Control Number2017024499
  • OCLC Control Number982652134
  • Better World Books9781588396334
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC709.04
  • LCCN6487.N4 M833 2017
  • LCCN6487.N4M833 2017

Description

Addressing the maniacal, eccentric, and disorienting in artworks made between 1950 and 1980, Delirious situates a fascination with the absurd and irrational within the context of the violence and brutality witnessed during World War II as well as the rapid expansion of industrial capitalism in the 1950s. Skepticism of science and technology--along with fear of its capability to promote mass destruction--developed into a distrust of rationalism, which in the arts had the paradoxical result of extracting irrational effects from rational means.

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