A house divided
Subtitle: American art since 1955
By: Anne Middleton Wagner
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley [Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780520268470; 9780520270978
Subjects: American Art; Themes, motives
Other titles: American art since 1955
Description: "This book charts the to-and-fro in recent American art between acknowledging the facts of nation and consumerism and searching for meaningful models. And it shows that this precess engages--even structures--national history and the citizen's self." -- Provided by publisher, back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Type casting; title: A house divided. Jasper Johns's flag; title: Andy Warhol's patriotism; title: Matta-Clark's cut; title: Maya Lin's memorial; title: Kara Walker's history; title: A place of safety. David Smith : heavy metal; title: Flavin's limited light; title: Nauman's body of sculpture; title: Bourgeois fantasy; title: How Eva Hesse named her work; title: Agnes Martin : the cause of the response; title: Performance, video, and the rhetoric of presence.