Much acclaimed and highly controversial, Michael Fried's art criticism defines the contours of late modernism in the visual arts. This volume contains 27 pieces--uncompromising, exciting, and impassioned writings, aware of their transformative power during a time of intense controversy about the nature of modernism and the aims and essence of advanced painting and sculpture. 16 color plates. 72 halftones.

Matter Mind Spirit is one in a series of exhibitions organized by the State Committees of the National Museum of Women in the Arts since the museum's opening in 1987.

. Focusing on the difficult relationship between art and social change, Margolin brings important new insights to our understanding of the avant-garde's role in a period of great political complexity.

Czech-born Canadian artist Jana Sterbak (b. 1955) has shown extensively and internationally, and uses diverse media -- sculptures, installations, photography, and video documentation of her performance -- to explore the relationship between the psychological and physical self. This book documents Sterbak's ingenious work (one piece is a bed made of bread, in another the artist morphs into a moth), and is an important testament to her growing importance.

Catalogus bij een tentoonstelling over de relatie tussen rockmuziek en avantgardistische kunst sinds de zestiger jaren.