| Description |
xii, 516 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. The American Avant-Garde. Artists. My Painting (1947-1948) / Jackson Pollock. The Romantics Were Prompted (1947-1948) / Mark Rothko. What Abstract Art Means to Me (1951) / Willem de Kooning. Critics. Towards a Newer Laocoon (1940) / Clement Greenberg. The American Action Painters (1952) / Harold Rosenberg. The New American Painting (1959) / Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Context. The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man (1933) / C. G. Jung -- 2. Art and Materialism in the Beat Generation. Artists. I am for an Art ... (1961/1967) / Claes Oldenburg. Happenings in the New York Scene (1961) / Allan Kaprow. The Artist Speaks (Interview with Dorothy Gees Seckler) (1966) / Robert Rauschenberg. Critics. The New Art (1963) / Alan Solomon. Context. Howl (1955-1956) / Allen Ginsberg. Dog (1955) / Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Experimental Music (1957) / John Cage -- 3. Mass Culture, Mass Media, Pop Art. Artists. What Is Pop Art? (Interviews by Gene Swenson) (1963 and 1964) / Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana / [et al.]. Critics. The Arts and the Mass Media (1958) / Lawrence Alloway. A Symposium on Pop Art (1963) / Peter Selz, Henry Geldzahler and Hilton Kramer / [et al.]. Context. Perspective from the Biltmore Balcony (1960) / Norman Mailer. Television: The Timid Giant (1964) / Marshall McLuhan -- 4. Objectivity, Reduction, and Formalism. Artists. Excerpts from Painters Painting (1970) / Frank Stella. Specific Objects (1965) / Donald Judd. Paragraphs on Conceptual Art (1967) / Sol LeWitt. Reflections (1973) / Agnes Martin. Critics. A B C Art (1965) / Barbara Rose. Modernist Painting (1965) / Clement Greenberg. Context. A Future for the Novel (1965) / Alain Robbe-Grillet -- 5. Process and Materials. Artists. Anti Form (1968) / Robert Morris. An Interview with Eva Hesse (by Cindy Nemser) (1970) / Eva Hesse. Nauman Interview (by Willoughby Sharp) (1970) / Bruce Nauman. Verb List (1972) / Richard Serra. Critics. Anti-Illusion: Procedures/Materials (1969) / Marcia Tucker. Context. Music As a Gradual Process (1968) / Steve Reich -- 6. Sculpture in the Environment. Artists. Cultural Confinement (1972) / Robert Smithson. Sun Tunnels (1977) / Nancy Holt. Interview by Barbaralee Diamonstein (1979) / Christo Claude and Jeanne-Claude. On the Periphery of Knowing (Interview by Jan Butterfield) (1976) / Robert Irwin. Gordon Matta-Clark's Building Dissections (Interview by Donald Wall) (1976) / Gordon Matta-Clark. Critics. Sculpture in the Expanded Field (1979) / Rosalind E. Krauss. Context. The Primacy of Perception and Its Philosophical Consequences (1964) / Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- 7. Theory, Politics, and Performance. Artists. Interview with Hans Haacke (by Robert C. Morgan) (1979) / Hans Haacke. Excerpts from The Dinner Party: A Symbol of Our Heritage (1979) / Judy Chicago. Catalysis: An Interview with Adrian Piper (by Lucy Lippard) (1972) / Adrian Piper. Untitled Statements (1975) / Chris Burden. Critics. Sexual Politics, Art Style (1971) / Lucy R. Lippard. Black Creativity in Quest of an Audience (1970) / Henri Ghent. Hans Haacke's Cancelled Show at the Guggenheim (1971) / Jack Burnham. Context. I've Been to the Mountaintop (1968) / Martin Luther King, Jr. Linguistics and Politics (1969) / Noam Chomsky -- 8. The Return of Painting. Artists. Statement (1980) / Elizabeth Murray. Expressionism Today: An Artist Symposium (Interviews by Carter Ratcliff and Hayden Herrera) (1982) / Eric Fischl, Leon Golub and Susan Rothenberg / [et al.]. Critics. American Painting: The Eighties (1980) / Barbara Rose. Context. The Adversary Culture of Intellectuals (1979) / Irving Kristol -- 9. Identity and Technology. Artists. Talking Art with Carrie Mae Weems (Interview by bell hooks) (1995) / Carrie Mae Weems. Charles Ray: A Telephone Conversation (Interview by Francesco Bonami) (1992) / Charles Ray. A Diary of Fluids and Fears (Interview by Francesco Bonami) (1993) / Kiki Smith. Interview with Gary Hill on Tall Ships (Interview by Regina Cornwell) (1997) / Gary Hill. Art at the End of the Optical Age (Interview by Virginia Rutledge) (1998) / Bill Viola. Critics. Art of the Living Dead (1992) / Lane Relyea. Coming Together in Parts: Positive Power in the Art of the Nineties (1993) / Elisabeth Sussman. Video in Situ (1995) / Eleanor Heartney. Context. The Work of Art in the Electronic Age (Interview by La Sept) (1988) / Jean Baudrillard. The Information War (1995) / Hakim Bey |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 500-503) and index |
| Subject |
Art, American -- 20th century.
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Art criticism -- United States.
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| LC no. |
2001040941 |
| ISBN |
0130908983 |
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