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Table of Contents, January 12, 2012
This review is from: The Revenge of the Philistines: Art and Culture, 1972-1984 (Hardcover)
I don't don't if i agree with these opinions but i thought you all might to know a little more about the topics and people discussed.
I. Revivals and revisionism
Andre Meyer Galleries at the Met
A Turner for the eighties
Age of Revolution I & II
Landseer : the Victorian paragon [Sir Edwin]
The Natural Paradies
Isolation of Thomas Eakins
Gorky revised [Maxim]
Rediscovering Stanley Spencer
The Return of the Nativist : Grant Wood
II. Modernist in retrospect - Europeans
Late Cezanne [Paul] ; the public and the private Rodin [Auguste] ; Picasso's rage [Pablo Picasso] ; Essential cubism in London; Bonnard [Pierre] ; De Stijl; Vantongerloo [Georges] ; Max Ernst; Miro and his critics [Jean] ; Sonia Delaunay; Giacometti's moral heroism [Alberto Giacometti]
Americans:
Marsden Harley; Florine Stettheimer; Elie Nadelman; Edward Hopper; Morton L. Schamberg; Precisionism revised; Morris Kantor; Abstract expressionism : the formative years; the Rothko Retrospective; the singularity of Clyfford Still
III. Contemporary art: the Anatomy of Pluralism
Fairfield Porter ; Noguchi ; Encountering Nevelson ; Jacob Lawrence's Chronicles of Black history
Pousette-Dart : odd man out
Richard Lindner, artist of two worlds; Saul Steinberg
Romair Bearden ; Helen Frankenthaler in the fifties
Morris Louis; Kenneth Noland ; Frank Stella, renewing abstraction
Agnes Martin; Anthony Caro at MoMa
Christopher Wilmarth
The transformations of Lucas Samaras ; Richart Diebenkorn; Chuck Close
Pearlstein's Portraits ; Kitaj, the vision of an expatriate
Maurice Sendak ; David Hockney
Social realism of Jack Beal
Milet Andrejevic
Roy Lichtenstein in the seventies; Robert Smithson
IV. The prose and poetry of photography
Fox Talbot and the invention of photography
Muybridge, the Stanford years
Young Steichen
Imogen Cunningham and Minor White
Ansel Adams, trophies from Eden
Walker Evans
Notes on Irving Penn ; Avedon ; The new American photography
V. Critics and controversies
Tom Wolfe and the revenge of the philistines
The Apples of Meyer Shapiro
Fairfield Porter as critic
Stanford Schwartz
Hoving Era at the Met [Metropolitan Museum of Art]
On the failure of museums
Reproduction for the plebes
Criticism endowed
VI. Art for the eighties
The new scene
Jackie Winsor ; Neil Jenney ; Charles Simonds
The return of the realists
Signs of passion : the new expressionism
Malcolm Morley ; Julian Schnabel
Turning back the clock : art and politics in 1984
MoMA reopened : the Museum of Modern Art in the Postmodern era
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