This document provides an introduction and table of contents to the book "Avant-Garde and After: Rethinking Art Now" by Brandon Taylor. The book examines major developments and debates in art from the 1970s through the early 1990s, with chapters exploring alternatives to modernism, painting and politics, stolen forms, art within the museum, and narrating identity. The acknowledgments section thanks individuals and organizations who provided assistance.
This document provides an introduction and table of contents to the book "Avant-Garde and After: Rethinking Art Now" by Brandon Taylor. The book examines major developments and debates in art from the 1970s through the early 1990s, with chapters exploring alternatives to modernism, painting and politics, stolen forms, art within the museum, and narrating identity. The acknowledgments section thanks individuals and organizations who provided assistance.
This document provides an introduction and table of contents to the book "Avant-Garde and After: Rethinking Art Now" by Brandon Taylor. The book examines major developments and debates in art from the 1970s through the early 1990s, with chapters exploring alternatives to modernism, painting and politics, stolen forms, art within the museum, and narrating identity. The acknowledgments section thanks individuals and organizations who provided assistance.
o:t THRIFT80 0 KS ,... f/lI!DI1flil!IiIHII1IH o 0804859 014 Avant-Garde and After Retlzillkillg Art Now Avant-Garde and After Rethinking Art NOIV Brandon Taylor l' E RS P Ee T I V ES H :\ R R Y 1'\ . AllR /\l\lS , N e . , PU D l lS H ERS Acklloll' Jedglltell ts I muse thank numerous indivi duals and organisar ions for thcir rimel)' asssrance. ind uding Mari n Busch of (he ;\1u!>Cum Boymaus-Van Bcuningen, Rort erdam: Ri chard Francia of t he Museum of Conrcmp orary Art , Cbicago; Victo ria Hcur y of rhe Canadian Museum uf Civilizauon, Onawa: Wolfram Kicpc of che Berlinische Galeric. Hcrlin; Portland McCormick of the MUSI.'um uf Comcmporary An , Los Angeles; Matt hew Slotover of Friezc rv1aga nc, Le uden; rhe Ronald Feldman Gallery, Nl.'W York; the Andrea R OWll Galleey, New York; the Sidney Janis Gallee)'. New York: t he Galcric Gcrald Pilt zer, Parir; rhe Gallee)' Srics. Kronberg; t he Neue Galerie am Landesmuseurn, Graz; the Martin-Gropius- Bau, Berlin; and rhe library staff uf the Tat e Gallery, London . The book was read in m:mu\CTi pt by Tiro Barringer, Adam Clark- Williams, Thcr uas Crow, Stephcn j ohnstcoe and Tim Renshaw. all of whom made suggesuous which have grearly improved t he text. assistant , Liz Atki uson, helped wirh a mass of el usive detail. josephine Dobbin-Felici translated from rhe Italian. " y wife, Lucia, ga\' e valuable advi ce on an carly draft. I mu part icularly thank the man}" arrists whu supplicd me wit h informarion. Fruntispier e l.t VINl 1,1r/it' ColJ Knu/ : 2, page 99 (detaih SU;" CMulllr""r Tim Barringcr (Dirl..btock College, l ondon] ,,,"it J Di rrer"r, H.lrrr N. Abr""'I, 1"(, Eve Sinaiko Srnior Edir...r ) ack)' Cojhss IlaeH'Y Duigl1cr Karcn DQI', l.ondon Cova .\t iko MeGint y Pie/l/rr Edir." Small Bolsom-Morns Library of Co ngrcss Cat310g Card Numbcr: 95-79738 (l-13-.l6f.lOU-6 Cop)Tiglu O 19';15 Calmann and King, Lrd. Published in 1995 IIaIT)' N. Abrams, lncorporared, New York :\I mes Min or .>\ 11 right J reserved. No p;.rt uf the ((.ntf'nUof hook may be reproduocd wnhout rhe wriu en permission of the publ isher This 0001< was pr od uced by Calmann ami King, LId ., Lo ndon Printed and hound in Sllg<l pllTe Contents INTRODu c n ON Tradition and AVOIlt-Garde 7 ONE Alterll atives to Modernism: tite 1970.1 17 A New \llomen's Art 18 Performance Art 26 Thr Trials nf Conccptualjsm .E TIte Spectre of Aflinna tive Painring 37 TWO Pailltillg and Politics: 1976-90 43 Thc Rcturn of rhc fi gure and of "Expresvion" 44 Expressionism Conrcsrcd 51 Snmething called "posr-Modcmism'' 57 Painting and "[he l-emi nine" 67 THREE Stolen Forms: 1976-90 73 Photography and Gcmlcr 74 Objccrs and rhc Markct 83 Painting and Appropri ation 95 FOUR Art uii thin tite Musmm: tit e later 1980.1 105 Culture lt self as a Subjcct 106 lnstallarion as Jeray t ! Thc Curaror's Part 126 Thc Powcc ofthc Photograph 1 ~ ) A Kind of Puh licity 134 FlVE Narrating Idcntitv: lit e early 1990.1 143 Thc Body and AIDS 143 West-Ccsst post-Modcrnislll 148 lnsrallarion and rhe dclass 151 Narrating thc Body 158 Thc Discoursc uf Racc 162 SIX Coda: Future Prospects 167
T1MELINE 170 BlBLlOGRAPHY 172 PICTURE CREDlTS 173 INDEX 174