Art of the postmodern era - From the late 1960s to the early 1990s (Hardcover, 1st ed)

Beginning in the late 1960s, Irving Sandler guides the reader through the various directions art has taken over the last few decades, from post minimal styles, patter, and decoration painting and new image painting to the neo-expressionism, media deconstruction and commodity of the 1980s. He discusses the major and minor artists and their works, movements, ideas, attitudes, styles and the social and cultural context of the period. He covers postmodernist art theory, the art market adn ocnsumer society. The work includes both American and European art and artists.