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Tables of Contents for American Art in the 20th Century
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
7
9
Sir Roger de Grey
Wrenching America's Impulse into Art: Notes on Art in the USA
9
4
Christos M. Joachimides
American Art: A View from Europe
13
8
Norman Rosenthal
Philosophizing American Art
21
8
Arthur C. Danto
Culture, Politics and Society in Mid-Century America
29
10
Douglas Tallack
The Armory Show and Early Modernism in America
39
8
Abraham A. Davidson
Precisionist View and American Scene: The 1920s
47
14
Wieland Schmied
The 1930s: Notes on the Transition from Social to Individual Scale in the Art of the Depression Era
61
8
Francis V. O'Connor
Modernist History and Surrealist Imagination: American Art in the 1940s
69
8
Stephen Polcari
Abstract Expressionism: The Noise of Traffic on the Way to Walden Pond
77
8
Irving Sandler
Beginning at the End: The Extremes of Abstract Expressionism
85
8
David Anfam
Black Mountain College: European Modernism, the Experimental Spirit and the American Avant-Garde
93
6
Mary Emma Harris
New York Intermedia: Happenings and Fluxus in the 1960s
99
8
Barbara Moore
The 1960s: Notes on Camelot
107
10
Brooks Adams
`To Speak Another Language': The Critique of Painting and the Beginnings of Minimal and Conceptual Art
117
8
Neal Benezra
Antiform: 1965-1970
125
8
Richard Armstrong
Land Art
133
6
John Beardsley
Shattered Orthodoxy: The Energy of Transformation
139
6
Wolfgang Max Faust
Critics, Primary and Secondary
145
6
Donald Kuspit
The Museum and the Collector
151
6
Gail Stavitsky
American Galleries in the Twentieth Century: From Stieglitz to Castelli
157
8
Mary Lublin
`The Body Electric': The Erotic Dimension in American Art
165
6
Carter Ratcliff
The Media in America: But is it Art?
171
6
Karal Ann Marling
Americans Abroad
177
10
Peter Selz
It's the Sheer Size: European Responses to American Art
187
8
Thomas Kellein
The Western Frontiers of Internationalism: Europe-America
195
6
Achille Bonito Oliva
Artists in the Exhibition
201
2
Catalogue
203
236
Biographies of the Artists
439
39
Selected Bibliography
478
4
The Authors
482
2
Photographic Acknowledgments
484
2
Index of Names
486