American art in the 20th century
Subtitle: painting and sculpture, 1913-1993
By: edited by Christos M. Joachimides and Norman Rosenthal ; co-ordinating editor, David Anfam ; essays by Brooks Adams ... [et al.].
Contributors: Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany); Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Saatchi Gallery
Publisher: Prestel; Te Neues Pub. Co. [distributor]; Zeitgeist-Gesellschaft; Royal Academy of Arts
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Munich; New York
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9783791312613; 9783791312408
Subjects: American Sculpture; Exhibitions; American Painting; Schilderkunst; Modern Painting; Peinture; Sculpture; Plastische kunst; History
Notes: "First published on the occasion of the exhibition Àmerican Art in the 20th Century : Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993', held at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 8 May-25 July 1993, and the Royal Academy of Arts and the Saatchi Gallery, London, 16 September-12 December, 1993"--T.p. verso.

Includes index.

Selected bibliography: p. 478-481.

Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: Wrenching America's impulse into art : notes on art in the USA / Christos M. Joachimides; title: American art : a view from Europe / Norman Rosenthal; title: Philosophizing American art / Arthur C. Danto; title: Culture, politics and society in mid-century America / Douglas Tallack; title: The Armory Show and early modernism in America / Abraham A. Davidson; title: Precisionist view and American scene : the 1920s / Wieland Schmied; title: The 1930s : notes on the transition from social to individual scale in the art of the Depression era / Francis V. O'Connor; title: Modernist history and surrealist imagination : American art in the 1940s / Stephen Polcari; title: Abstract expressionism : the noise of traffic on the way to Walden Pond / Irving Sandler; title: Beginning at the end : the extremes of abstract expressionism / David Anfam; title: Black Mountain College : European modernism, the experimental spirit and the American avant-garde / Mary Emma Harris; title: New York intermedia : happenings and fluxus in the 1960s / Barbara Moore; title: The 1960s : notes on Camelot / Brooks Adams; title: T̀o speak another language' : the critique of painting and the beginnings of minimal and conceptual art / Neal Benezra; title: Antiform : 1965-1970 / Richard Armstrong; title: Land art / John Beardsley; title: Shattered orthodoxy : the energy of transformation / Wolfgang Max Faust; title: Critics, primary and secondary / Donald Kuspit; title: The museum and the collector / Gail Stavitsky; title: American galleries in the twentieth century : from Stieglitz to Castelli / Mary Lublin; title: T̀he body electric' : the erotic dimension in American art / Carter Ratcliff; title: The media in America : but is it art? / Karal Ann Marling; title: Americans abroad / Peter Selz; title: It's the sheer size : European responses to American art / Thomas Kellein; title: The western frontiers of internationalism : Europe-America / Achille Bonito Oliva.