| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xix, 412 pages, 8 unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Icon editions |
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Icon editions.
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: p. [365]-399. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Art, American -- 20th century -- Themes, motives.
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| ISBN |
0064385078 : $50.00 |
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0064301796 paperback $25.00 |
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