Readings

There are several required texts for the course. There are other recommended texts widely available in area bookstores but not ordered for the course. Additionally, there are readings from journals and unpublished materials that have been placed on reserve. All of these are referenced in the course syllabus; an expanded bibliography of artists active in the U.S. will be available for use in preparing research papers.

Required

Ashton, Dore. The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press reprint (1992).

Jones, Caroline. Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press (1996)

Sandler, Irving. Art of the Postmodern Era : From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s (New York, Harcourt Brace, Icon editions: 1996)

Recommended

Sandler, Irving. The Triumph of American Painting, Harper and Row (1970)

Johnson, Ellen. American Artists on Art, from 1940-1980, New York: Harper and Row (1982).

Siegel, Jeanne, ed. Art Talk: The Early '80s, New York: Da Capo (1988).

Lippard, Lucy. Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America, NY: Pantheon (1990).

Owens, Craig. Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture, Berkeley: University of California Press (1992)