Unpackaging Art of the 1980s

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Unpackaging Art of the 1980s is written by Alison Pearlman and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226651460 (ISBN 10) and 9780226651460 (ISBN 13).

"Pearlman reassesses the works and careers of six artists who became critics' biggest targets, revealing their previously unseen common ground. In each of three chapters, she features two artists the critics viewed as emblematic of a given trend: Julian Schnabel and David Salle in association with Neo-Expressionism; Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring vis-a-vis Graffiti Art; and Peter Halley and Jeff Koons in relation to Simulationism. Pearlman shows how all these artists shared important but unrecognized influences and approaches: a crucial and overwhelming inheritance of 1960s and 1970s Conceptualism, a Warholian understanding of public identity, and a deliberate and nuanced used of past styles and media. Through in-depth discussions of works, from Haring's bodypaintings of Grace Jones to Schnabel's movie Basquiat, Pearlman demonstrates how these artists' interests exemplified a broader, generational shift unrecognized by critics. She sees this shift as starting not in the 1980s but in the mid-1970s, when key developments in artistic style, art-world structures, and consumer culture converged to radically alter the course of American art."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved