Artists, Critics, Context Readings in and Around American Art Since 1945

For an undergraduate course in Modern Art History and Theory, or Post-War American Culture.

This anthology of original writings covers modern American art and culture from mid-1940s abstract expressionism and the Cold War right through to the late 1990s with its proliferation of video and technological developments in telecommunications and biotechnology-giving students a firm understanding of the evolution of artistic development within the context of major political, cultural, and sociological trends and ideas that have emerged in the United States since World War II. A compact and indispensable resource, it divides chapter writings into three categories-artists, critics, and context-and includes selections from outside the visual arts to establish relationships between the issues raised by the work of these artists to trends and ideas that were gaining prominence within the broader culture at the time that the art was being created.