{"product_id":"the-new-monuments-and-the-robert-slifkin-9780691192529","title":"The New Monuments and the End of Man: U.S. Sculpture Between War and Peace, 1945-1975","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow leading American artists reflected on the fate of humanity in the nuclear era through monumental sculpture\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the wake of the atomic bombings of Japan in 1945, artists in the United States began to question what it meant to create a work of art in a world where humanity could be rendered extinct by its own hand. \u003ci\u003eThe New Monuments and the End of Man\u003c\/i\u003e examines how some of the most important artists of postwar America revived the neglected tradition of the sculptural monument as a way to grapple with the cultural and existential anxieties surrounding the threat of nuclear annihilation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRobert Slifkin looks at such iconic works as the industrially evocative welded steel sculptures of David Smith, the austere structures of Donald Judd, and the desolate yet picturesque earthworks of Robert Smithson. Transforming how we understand this crucial moment in American art, he traces the intersections of postwar sculptural practice with cybernetic theory, science-fiction cinema and literature, and the political debates surrounding nuclear warfare. Slifkin identifies previously unrecognized affinities of the sculpture of the 1940s and 1950s with the minimalism and land art of the 1960s and 1970s, and acknowledges the important contributions of postwar artists who have been marginalized until now, such as Raoul Hague, Peter Grippe, and Robert Mallary. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStrikingly illustrated throughout, \u003ci\u003eThe New Monuments and the End of Man\u003c\/i\u003e spans the decades from Hiroshima to the Fall of Saigon, when the atomic bomb cast its shadow over American art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Slifkin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691192529\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691192529\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 7.30w x 1.10d","brand":"Robert Slifkin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44138372301055,"sku":"9780691192529","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9848f22e-338e-45c7-a1c5-ef26f28de607.jpg?v=1687899304","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-new-monuments-and-the-robert-slifkin-9780691192529","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}