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American art of the 1960s / Irving Sandler.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Icon editionsPublication details: New York : Harper & Row, c1988.Edition: 1st edDescription: xix, 412 p., [8] plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0064385078
  • 0064301796 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • N6512 .S255 1988
Contents:
Painterly painting and post-painterly painting -- Art-as-art versus life-as-art : purist versus impurist aesthetics -- The sensibility of the sixties -- The artist as a man of the world -- The avant-garde art world -- The art-world consensus -- Pop art -- The new perceptual realism and photo-realism -- Op art and kinetic sculpture -- Minimal sculpture -- Construction-sculpture -- The artist as political activist -- Eccentric abstraction and process art -- Earthworks, minimal environments, and performances -- Conceptual art -- Epilogue : 1970, the death of the avant-garde.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks N6512.S255 1988 1 Available 33710000850193

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [365]-399.

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Painterly painting and post-painterly painting -- Art-as-art versus life-as-art : purist versus impurist aesthetics -- The sensibility of the sixties -- The artist as a man of the world -- The avant-garde art world -- The art-world consensus -- Pop art -- The new perceptual realism and photo-realism -- Op art and kinetic sculpture -- Minimal sculpture -- Construction-sculpture -- The artist as political activist -- Eccentric abstraction and process art -- Earthworks, minimal environments, and performances -- Conceptual art -- Epilogue : 1970, the death of the avant-garde.