{"product_id":"new-games-pamela-m-lee-9780415988797","title":"New Games: Postmodernism After Contemporary Art","description":"\u003cp\u003ePamela M. Lee's \u003cem\u003eNew Games\u003c\/em\u003e 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, Öyvind Fahlström and Richard Serra, among others, Lee returns to Jean-Francois Lyotard's canonical text \u003cem\u003eThe Postmodern Condition\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cem\u003eNew Games\u003c\/em\u003e asks readers to think critically about our recent past and the embattled state of our contemporary preoccupations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith a critical introduction by Johanna Burton, \u003cem\u003eNew Games\u003c\/em\u003e is the fourth and penultimate volume in Routledge's series of short books on the theories of modernism by leading art historians on twentieth-century art and art criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pamela M. Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415988799\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415988797\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/16\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.63h x 5.58w x 0.84d","brand":"Pamela M. Lee","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47202137047295,"sku":"9780415988797","price":170.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_789d0ff7-9e59-43e1-bd9e-0511aad2471b.jpg?v=1756819742","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/new-games-pamela-m-lee-9780415988797","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}