Unpackaging Art of the 1980s
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: February 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780226651460
Subjects: History - General; Popular Culture - 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.