Newman, Michael; Lee, Pamela; Elkins, James; Hudson, Suzanne and Getsy, David. 2013. Seminar. In: , ed. New Games: Postmodernism After Contemporary Art. London: Routledge, pp. 217-244. ISBN 978-0415988803 [Book Section]

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Pamela M. Lee’s New Games 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 The Postmodern Condition 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. New Games asks readers to think critically about our recent past and the embattled state of our contemporary preoccupations.

Item Type:	Book Section
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Art
Dates:	Date Event 2013 Published
Item ID:	16540
Date Deposited:	01 Feb 2016 14:57
Last Modified:	16 Jun 2017 15:42
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/16540

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