Urban theater : New York art in the 1980s /

"Vibrant, vital, and discordant, the New York art scene of the 1980s gave rise to some of the contemporary art world's most recognizable features. As the artists who emerged in that decade now set records at auction, the era is ripe to be reexamined. This book presents and examines the ico...

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Main Authors: Auping, Michael (Author, Curator), Karnes, Andrea (Author), Hearst, Alison (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Fort Worth, TX : Skira Rizzoli ; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2014.
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ISBN:9780847844548
0847844544
9780929865348
0929865340
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements / Marla Price
  • Introduction / Michael Auping
  • High performance: theatricality and the art of the '80s / Michael Auping
  • Plates
  • Personality Complex / Andrea Karnes
  • Keeping it real: the impure abstractions of Ross Bleckner, Troy Brauntuch, Peter Halley, Donald Sultan, Philip Taaffe, and Christopher Wool / Alison Hearst
  • Works in the exhibition
  • Biographies.