Paperback
580 illustrations
512 pages
280 x 216 mm
ISBN 978 1 85669 181 9
£19.95
Published April 2000
Contents
Introduction
1. New York in the Forties
2. A Dialog with Europe
3. Existentialism Comes to the Fore
4. The New European Masters of the Late Forties
5. Some International Tendencies of the Fifties
6. The Beat Generation: The Fifties in America
7. The European Vanguard of the Later Fifties
8. The Landscape of Signs: American Pop Art 1960 t0 1965
9. In the Nature of Materials: The Later Sixties
10. Politics and Postmodernism: The Transition to the Seventies 11. Surviving the Corporate Culture of the Seventies
12. Painting at the End of the Seventies
13. The Eighties
14. New Tendencies of the Nineties
15. To Say Things That Are Ones Own
Notes
Index
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Widely acclaimed in its first edition, this major survey looks at art from 1940 to the present in Europe and America as an accumulation of unique contributions by individual artists. By focusing on how these exceptional individuals come to terms with their existence and explore those insights through their art, the author provides a fascinating and thought-provoking study. Thoroughly updated for this new edition, the book now includes artists such as Damien Hirst, Lygia Clark, Helio Oiticica, Cai Guo-Qiang, Fred Tomaselli, Carrie Mae Weems, Rachel Whitehead, Guo Quiang Cai, Mariko Mori and Rebecca Horn.
Jonathan Fineberg is Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois and a widely recognised authority on contemporary art. He won the 1969 Pulitzer Fellowship in Critical Writing and is also the author of The Innocent Eye: Children's Art and the Modern Artist.
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