20th century american art history
20th century american culture
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american art history
american culture
american sculptor
art
art history
artists
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autobiography in clay
biographical
career
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ceramic funk art movement
ceramics
confrontational statements
contemporary culture
controversial art
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funk art
high school art teacher
international stature
lifetime
narcissism
personal style
photographs included
psychosocial
robert arneson
sculpting
self portrait
self portraiture
social statements
Product details
- ISBN 9780520273832
- Weight: 1361g
- Dimensions: 216 x 279mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2013
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The first major book to consider the life and work of Robert Arneson, "A Troublesome Subject" tells the fascinating story of how a high school art teacher transformed himself into an artist of international stature and ambition. Representing the full scope of Arneson's career in a rich survey of color reproductions, this book is at once a study of the trajectory of contemporary culture, the work of Robert Arneson, and the relationship between the two. It shows how Arneson's work articulated the crisis of narcissism that has defined American culture since 1970. Jonathan Fineberg develops his ongoing work toward a psychosocial history of art as he proceeds through Arneson's career - chronicling his early life, the formation of a personal style, and finding a unique subject matter in his famous post - 1970 turn to self-portraiture.
Jonathan Fineberg is Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Art History Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Innocent Eye: Children's Art and The Modern Artist, Art since 1940, and Imagining America: Icons of 20th Century American Art. He is the editor of When We Were Young: New Perspectives on the Art of the Child (UC Press).
