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Avant-Garde and AfterRethinking Art NOIVBrandon Taylor

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Ackllo ll'JedglltelltsI muse thank numerous indivi duals and organisar ionsfor thcir rimel)' asssrance. ind uding Mari nBusch of (he ;\1u!>Cum Boymaus-Van Bcuningen, R orterdam: Ri chard Francia of the Museum ofConrcmporary Art, Cbicago; Victo ria Hcury of rhe Canadian Museum uf Civilizauon, Onawa:Wolfram Kicpc of che Berlinische Galeric. Hcrlin; Portland McCormick of the MUSI.'um ufComcmporary An , Los Angeles; Matthew Slotover of Friezc rv1aga nc, Leuden; rhe R onaldFeldman Gallery, N l.'W York; the Andrea R OWll Galleey, New York ; the Sidney Janis Gallee)'.New York: the Galcric Gcrald Piltzer , Parir; rhe Gallee)' Srics. Kronberg; the Neue Galerie amLandesmuseurn, Graz; the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; and rhe library staff uf the Tat e Gallery,London . The book was read in m:mu \CTipt by Tiro Barringer, Adam Clark-W illiams, ThcruasCrow, Step hcn johnstcoe and Tim Renshaw. all of whom made suggesuous which have grearlyimproved the text. ~ assistant, Liz Atkiuson, helped wirh a mass of elusive detail. josephine

Dobbin-Felici translated from rhe Italian . " y wife, Lucia, ga\'e valuable adv ce on an carly draft.I mu particularly thank the man}" arrists whu supplicd me with informarion.

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ContentsINTRODu c n ON Tradition and AVOIlt-Garde 7ONE A lterllatives to Mode rnism: tite 1970.1 17

A New \llomen's Art 18 Performance Art 26 Thr Trials nfConccptualjsm .ETIte Spectre of Aflinnative Painring 37

TWO Pai lltillg and Po litics: 1976-90 43Thc Rcturn of rhc fi gure and of "Expresvion" 44

Expressionism Conrcsrcd 51 Snmething called "posr-Modcmism'' 57Painting and "[he l-eminine" 67

THREE Stolen Forms : 1976-90 73Photography and Gcmlcr 74 Objccrs and rhc Markct 83

Painting and Appropriation 95

FOUR A rt uiithin tite Musmm: tite later 19801 105Culture ltself as a Subjcct 106 lnstallarion as Jeray t !

ThcCuraror's Part 126 Thc Powccofthc PhotographA Kind of Puhlicity 134

FlVE Narra ting Idcnt itv: lite early 19901 143Thc Body and AIDS 143 West-Ccsst post-Modcrnislll 148

lnsrallarion and rhe dclass 151 Narrating thc Body 158 Thc Discoursc uf Racc 162

SIX Coda: Future Prospects 167

T1MELINE 170BlBLlOGRAPHY 172

PICTURE CREDlTS 173INDEX 174