o:t THRIFT80 0 KS ,... f/lI!DI1flil!IiIHII1IH o 0804859 014 Avant-Garde and After Retlzillkillg Art Now Avant-Garde and After Rethinking Art NOIV Brandon Taylor l' E RS P Ee T I V ES H :\ R R Y 1'\ . AllR /\l\lS , N e . , PU D l lS H ERS Acklloll' Jedglltell ts I muse thank numerous indivi duals and organisar ions for thcir rimel)' asssrance. ind uding Mari n Busch of (he ;\1u!>Cum Boymaus-Van Bcuningen, Rort erdam: Ri chard Francia of t he Museum of Conrcmp orary Art , Cbicago; Victo ria Hcur y of rhe Canadian Museum uf Civilizauon, Onawa: Wolfram Kicpc of che Berlinische Galeric. Hcrlin; Portland McCormick of the MUSI.'um uf Comcmporary An , Los Angeles; Matt hew Slotover of Friezc rv1aga nc, Le uden; rhe Ronald Feldman Gallery, Nl.'W York; the Andrea R OWll Galleey, New York; the Sidney Janis Gallee)'. New York: t he Galcric Gcrald Pilt zer, Parir; rhe Gallee)' Srics. Kronberg; t he Neue Galerie am Landesmuseurn, Graz; the Martin-Gropius- Bau, Berlin; and rhe library staff uf the Tat e Gallery, London . The book was read in m:mu\CTi pt by Tiro Barringer, Adam Clark- Williams, Thcr uas Crow, Stephcn j ohnstcoe and Tim Renshaw. all of whom made suggesuous which have grearly improved t he text. assistant , Liz Atki uson, helped wirh a mass of el usive detail. josephine Dobbin-Felici translated from rhe Italian. " y wife, Lucia, ga\' e valuable advi ce on an carly draft. I mu part icularly thank the man}" arrists whu supplicd me wit h informarion. Fruntispier e l.t VINl 1,1r/it' ColJ Knu/ : 2, page 99 (detaih SU;" CMulllr""r Tim Barringcr (Dirl..btock College, l ondon] ,,,"it J Di rrer"r, H.lrrr N. Abr""'I, 1"(, Eve Sinaiko Srnior Edir...r ) ack)' Cojhss IlaeH'Y Duigl1cr Karcn DQI', l.ondon Cova .\t iko MeGint y Pie/l/rr Edir." Small Bolsom-Morns Library of Co ngrcss Cat310g Card Numbcr: 95-79738 (l-13-.l6f.lOU-6 Cop)Tiglu O 19';15 Calmann and King, Lrd. Published in 1995 IIaIT)' N. Abrams, lncorporared, New York :\I mes Min or .>\ 11 right J reserved. No p;.rt uf the ((.ntf'nUof hook may be reproduocd wnhout rhe wriu en permission of the publ isher This 0001< was pr od uced by Calmann ami King, LId ., Lo ndon Printed and hound in Sllg<l pllTe Contents INTRODu c n ON Tradition and AVOIlt-Garde 7 ONE Alterll atives to Modernism: tite 1970.1 17 A New \llomen's Art 18 Performance Art 26 Thr Trials nf Conccptualjsm .E TIte Spectre of Aflinna tive Painring 37 TWO Pailltillg and Politics: 1976-90 43 Thc Rcturn of rhc fi gure and of "Expresvion" 44 Expressionism Conrcsrcd 51 Snmething called "posr-Modcmism'' 57 Painting and "[he l-emi nine" 67 THREE Stolen Forms: 1976-90 73 Photography and Gcmlcr 74 Objccrs and rhc Markct 83 Painting and Appropri ation 95 FOUR Art uii thin tite Musmm: tit e later 1980.1 105 Culture lt self as a Subjcct 106 lnstallarion as Jeray t ! Thc Curaror's Part 126 Thc Powcc ofthc Photograph 1 ~ ) A Kind of Puh licity 134 FlVE Narrating Idcntitv: lit e early 1990.1 143 Thc Body and AIDS 143 West-Ccsst post-Modcrnislll 148 lnsrallarion and rhe dclass 151 Narrating thc Body 158 Thc Discoursc uf Racc 162 SIX Coda: Future Prospects 167
T1MELINE 170 BlBLlOGRAPHY 172 PICTURE CREDlTS 173 INDEX 174