Art of the Postmodern Era: From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s

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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 styles to pattern and decoration painting and new image painting. In turn, the 1980s ushered in a second wave of new movements—neoexpressionism, media deconstruction, and commodity art. Sandler also discusses postmodernist art theory, the art market, and consumer society, providing an essential framework for understanding the art of this period.Unlike his previous books, Art of the Postmodern Era includes both American and European artists. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 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 Bibliography Index