CONTENTS
Introduction = 1
Chapter 1 The Politics of Modernism : Abstract Expressionism and the European Informel = 5
Chapter 2 Duchamp's Legacy : The Rauschenberg-Johns Axis = 37
Chapter 3 The Artist in Crisis : From Bacon to Beuys = 67
Chapter 4 Blurring Boundaries : Pop Art, Fluxus, and their Effects = 95
Chapter 5 Modernism in Retreat : Minimalist Aesthetics and Beyond = 131
Chapter 6 The Death of the Object : The Move to Conceptualism = 161
Chapter 7 Postmodernism : Theory and Practice in the 1980s = 197
Chapter 8 Into the 1 990s = 233
Notes = 246
Further Reading = 252
Timeline = 260
Galleries and Websites = 266
Picture Credits = 269
Index = 275
Introduction = 1
Chapter 1 The Politics of Modernism : Abstract Expressionism and the European Informel = 5
Chapter 2 Duchamp's Legacy : The Rauschenberg-Johns Axis = 37
Chapter 3 The Artist in Crisis : From Bacon to Beuys = 67
Chapter 4 Blurring Boundaries : Pop Art, Fluxus, and their Effects = 95
Chapter 5 Modernism in Retreat : Minimalist Aesthetics and Beyond = 131
Chapter 6 The Death of the Object : The Move to Conceptualism = 161
Chapter 7 Postmodernism : Theory and Practice in the 1980s = 197
Chapter 8 Into the 1 990s = 233
Notes = 246
Further Reading = 252
Timeline = 260
Galleries and Websites = 266
Picture Credits = 269
Index = 275