Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980 by Kelly Baum - 2017-10-10

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017. Hardcover. New, but one copy not in shrinkwrap.. Color-illustrated boards with white vertical lettering. 235 pp. Color and BW illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition at The Met from September 13, 2017- January 14, 2018.

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New York and New Haven, CT: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2017. Pictorial boards, 235 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 cm. Published in conjunction with "Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980," on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from September 13, 2017 through January 14, 2018. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Addressing the maniacal, eccentric, and disorienting in artworks made between 1950 and 1980, Delirious situates a fascination with the absurd and irrational within the context of the violence and brutality witnessed during World War II as well as the rapid expansion of industrial capitalism in the 1950s. Skepticism of science and technology--along with fear of its capability to promote mass destruction--developed into a distrust of rationalism, which in the arts had the paradoxical result of extracting irrational effects… Read More

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