Unpackaging Art of the 1980s
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: June 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780226651453
Subjects: Art styles: c 1960 -; Theory of art; History - General; Art / History / General; Art; Art & Art Instruction; 20th century; Art, American; Influence; Popular culture; Semiotics and the arts; United States
First sentence: The emergence of Julian Schnabel, David Salle, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Peter Halley, and Jeff Koons as "art stars" in the 1980s aroused American art critics' most explicit fear of the time: that art no longer opposed consumer culture.