Fineberg, Jonathan : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Summary
A comprehensive selection of nearly 600 illustrations�Approximately half in color. Represents art since 1940,
both in Europe and America.
Gives students an abundance of images at their fingertips to study.
The whole field of art since 1940, but with a special focus�Focuses in considerable depth on understanding the
meaning of the work of those artists whose vision changed the course of events in a major way.
Makes this a complete stand alone text.
The individuality of artists�In relation to the specific political, social, and broader cultural contexts of which
they were a part, rather than as generic representatives of particular movements.
In-depth look at key figures�e.g., Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Elizabeth
Murray, Eva Hesse, David Wojnarowicz, and Jean Michel Basquiat. Discussion of the new critical theory and its profound
affect on the field of art history.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction.
2. New York in the Forties.
New York Becomes the Center
The Sense of Movement in New York
3. A Dialog with Europe.
Calder
Hofmann
Gorky
Motherwell
De Kooning
4. Existentialism Comes to the Fore.
Pollock
Newman
Rothko
David Smith
5. The New European Masters of the Late Forties.
Dubuffet
Giacometti
Bacon
6. Some International Tendencies of the Fifties.
Purified Abstraction
Greenberg's Definition of Modernism
The CoBrA
The Figurative Revival of the Fifties
7. The Beat Generation�The Fifties in America.
Cage
Rauschenberg
Junk Sculpture and Happenings
Oldenburg
Johns
8. The European Vanguard of the Later Fifties.
Nouveau Réalisme
Beuys
British Pop
9. The Landscape of Signs: American Pop Art 1960 to 1965.
The Electronic Consciousness and New York Pop
Warhol
Lichtensetin
Rosenquist
Westermann, Saul, and the Hairy Who
West Coast Pop
Arneson
10. In the Nature of Materials: The Later Sixties.
Minimal Art
Eva Hesse
Nauman and Serra
Artists working in the Landscape
11. Politics and Postmodernism: The Transition to the Seventies.
Re-Radicalizing the Avant-Garde
Christo
Postmodernism
12. Surviving the Corporate Culture.
A New Pluralism
Bearden
Aycock
Late Style Guston
13. Painting at the End of the Seventies.
New Espressionist Painting in Europe
Bartlett and Rothenberg
Murray
14. The Eighties.
A Fresh Look at Abstraction
American Neo-Expression
Appropriation
