Essays about: "Naivism"

Found 1 essay containing the word Naivism.

  1. 1. Common Objects : postmodernist discourse, naivety and the logic of consumption in the work of Donald Baechler

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Joakim Borda-Pedreira; [2007]
    Keywords : Baechler; Donald; 1956-; postmodernism; consumer society; Pop Art; Naivism; Contemporary painting; konsumtion; Art History; Konstvetenskap; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : This is a poststructuralist study of strategies of representation in the work of American artist Donald Baechler. Tracing late-modern discourse on consumer society and cultural fragmentation - as well as art historical debates on the demise of painting - in a number of paintings by Baechler, I attempt to shed some light on key issues in contemporary figurative art. READ MORE