Introduction New York in the forties. New York becomes the center The sense of a new movement in New York A dialog with Europe. Alexander Calder Hans Hofmann Arshile Gorky Robert Motherwell Willem de Kooning Existentialism comes to the fore. Jackson Pollock Barnett Newman Mark Rothko David Smith and the sculpture of the New York School The new Eruopean masters of the late forties. Jean Dubuffet and postwar Paris The extentialist figuration of Alberto Giacometti Francis Bacon Some international tendencies of the fifties. Purified abstraction "New images of man" in Europe and America The beat generation : the fifties in America. "A Coney Island of the mind" : the Beats and John Cage Robert Rauschenberg Appropriating the real : junk sculpture and happenings Claes Oldenburg Jasper Johns The European vanguard of the later fifties. Nouveau réalisme Joseph Beuys British pop : from the Independent Group to David Hockney
The landscape of signs : American pop art 1960 to 1965. The electronic consciousness and New York pop
H.C. Westermann, Peter Saul, and the Hairy Who
In the nature of materials : the later sixties. Back to first principles
Eva Hesse and investigations of materials and process
Bruce Nauman and Richard Serra
Artists working in the landscape
Arte povera, and a perserving rapport with nature in Europe
Politics and postmodernism : the transition to the seventies. Re-radicalizing the avant-garde
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Surviving the corporate culture of America of the seventies. A new pluralism
Philip Guston's late style
Painting at the end of the seventies. New expressionist painting in Europe
The peculiar case of the Russians
New imagist painting and sculpture
The eighties. A fresh look at abstraction
American neo-expressionism
New tendencies of the nineties
To say the things that are one's own.
Existentialism comes to the fore
The new European masters of the late forties
Some international tendencies of the fifties
The beat generation, the fifties in America
The European vanguard of the later fifties
The landscape of signs, American pop art 1960 to 1965
In the nature of materials, the later sixties
Politics and postmodernism, the transition to the seventies
Surviving the corporate culture of America of the seventies
Painting at the end of the seventies
New tendencies of the nineties
To say the things that are one's own.
