Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-290) and index.
Contents:
New image painting: A prelude to the 1980s -- Painting as puzzle: The downtown New York art world of the 1980s -- Abstraction: Ideas about the thing and the thing itself -- Addressing Germany's past: Painting in a divided nation -- A sense of place: The Italian Transavanguardia -- Worthy misfits: Defying categorization
Summary:
"This book is the first to explore major painters of the 1980s in depth and to analyze the factors that shaped art from the period. Accessible to both novice and specialist, Painting in the 1980s details where and how painting embodied the zeitgeist in original fusions of style and content. Gallerists, curators, and art historians assigned labels such as New Image Painting, Neo-Expressionism, Italian Transavanguardia, Neo-Geo, and the blanket designation of Postmodernism to categorize painting in this era, yet these classifications denote a false sense of homogeneity. This book's narrative aims to excavate and analyze the art and ideas that shaped each artist's style and their diverse and often ambiguous content" -- back cover.
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