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American art in the 20th century : painting and sculpture 1913-1993 / edited by Christos M. Joachimides and Norman Rosenthal ; co-ordinating editor, David Anfam ; essays by Brooks Adams ... [et. al.]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Munich : Prestel ; London : Royal Academy of Arts ; Berlin : Zeitgeist-Gesellschaft e.V., c1993.Description: 490 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cmISBN:
  • 3791312618 (English trade ed.)
  • 3791312405 (German trade ed.)
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Contents:
Foreword / Roger de Grey -- Wrenching America's Impulse into Art: Notes on Art in the USA / Christos M. Joachimides -- American Art: A View from Europe / Norman Rosenthal -- Philosophizing American Art / Arthur C. Danto -- Culture, Politics and Society in Mid-Century America / Douglas Tallack -- The Armory Show and Early Modernism in America / Abraham A. Davidson -- Precisionist View and American Scene: The 1920s / Wieland Schmied -- The 1930s: Notes on the Transition from Social to Individual Scale in the Art of the Depression Era / Francis V. O'Connor -- Modernist History and Surrealist imagination: American Art in the 1940s / Stephen Polcari -- Abstract Expressionism: The Noise of Traffic on the Way to Walden Pond / Irving Sandler -- Beginning at the End: The Extremes of Abstract Expressionism / David Anfam -- Black Mountain College: European Modernism, the Experimental Spirit and the American Avant-Garde / Mary Emma Harris -- New York Intermedia: Happenings and Fluxus in the 1960s / Barbara Moore -- The 1960s: Notes on Camelot / Brooks Adams -- 'To Speak Another Language': The Critique of Painting and the Beginnings of Minimal and Conceptual Art / Neal Benezra -- Antiform: 1965-1970 / Richard Armstrong -- Land Art / John Beardsley -- Shattered Orthodoxy: The Energy of Transformation / Wolfgang Max Faust -- Critics, Primary and Secondary / Donald Kuspit -- The Museum and the Collector / Gail Stavitsky -- American Galleries in the Twentieth Century: from Stieglitz to Castelli / Mary Lublin -- 'The Body Electric': The Erotic Dimension in American Art / Carter Ratcliff -- The Media in America: But is it Art? / Karal Ann Marling -- Americans Abroad / Peter Selz -- It's the Sheer Size: European Responses to American Art / Thomas Kellein -- The Western Frontiers of Internationalism: Europe-America / Achille Bonito Oliva -- Artists in the Exhibition -- Catalogue -- Biographies of the Artists.
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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.A51216 1993 1 Available 33710000634811

"First published on the occasion of the exhibition ... held at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 8 May-25 July 1993, and the Royal Academy of Arts and the Saatchi Gallery, London, 16 September-12 December, 1993"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 486-489) and index.

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Foreword / Roger de Grey -- Wrenching America's Impulse into Art: Notes on Art in the USA / Christos M. Joachimides -- American Art: A View from Europe / Norman Rosenthal -- Philosophizing American Art / Arthur C. Danto -- Culture, Politics and Society in Mid-Century America / Douglas Tallack -- The Armory Show and Early Modernism in America / Abraham A. Davidson -- Precisionist View and American Scene: The 1920s / Wieland Schmied -- The 1930s: Notes on the Transition from Social to Individual Scale in the Art of the Depression Era / Francis V. O'Connor -- Modernist History and Surrealist imagination: American Art in the 1940s / Stephen Polcari -- Abstract Expressionism: The Noise of Traffic on the Way to Walden Pond / Irving Sandler -- Beginning at the End: The Extremes of Abstract Expressionism / David Anfam -- Black Mountain College: European Modernism, the Experimental Spirit and the American Avant-Garde / Mary Emma Harris -- New York Intermedia: Happenings and Fluxus in the 1960s / Barbara Moore -- The 1960s: Notes on Camelot / Brooks Adams -- 'To Speak Another Language': The Critique of Painting and the Beginnings of Minimal and Conceptual Art / Neal Benezra -- Antiform: 1965-1970 / Richard Armstrong -- Land Art / John Beardsley -- Shattered Orthodoxy: The Energy of Transformation / Wolfgang Max Faust -- Critics, Primary and Secondary / Donald Kuspit -- The Museum and the Collector / Gail Stavitsky -- American Galleries in the Twentieth Century: from Stieglitz to Castelli / Mary Lublin -- 'The Body Electric': The Erotic Dimension in American Art / Carter Ratcliff -- The Media in America: But is it Art? / Karal Ann Marling -- Americans Abroad / Peter Selz -- It's the Sheer Size: European Responses to American Art / Thomas Kellein -- The Western Frontiers of Internationalism: Europe-America / Achille Bonito Oliva -- Artists in the Exhibition -- Catalogue -- Biographies of the Artists.