Full Description
The fourth and final installment in Irving Sandler's series on contemporary art, Art of the Postmodern Era surveys the artists, works, movements, and ideas as well as the social and cultural context of this energetic and turbulent period in art.The book begins with the late 1960s, when new directions in art emerged, ranging from diverse postminimal
Contents
Introduction, 1 Postminimalism, 2 The Impact of 1968 on European Art, 3 First-Generation Feminism, 4 Pattern and Decoration Painting, 5 Architectural Sculpture, 6 New Image Painting, 7 The Art World of the 1970s, 8 American Neoexpressionism, 9 The Italian Transavantguardia and German Neoexpressionism, 10 Media Art, 11 Postmodernist Art Theory, 12 The Consumer Society and Deconstruction Art, 13 The Art World in the First Half of the 1980s, 14 East Village Art, 15 Commodity Art, Neogeo, and the East Village Art Scene, 16 The "Other": From the Marginal into the Mainstream, 17 Into the 1990s