On Modern American Art: Selected Essays

Table of contents

• Title Page 3
• Contents 5
• Preface 9
• What is American About American Art? 1990 11
• Resurrecting Augustus Vincent Tack 1986 22
• A Dada Bouquet for New York 1996 29
• Reconstructing Benton 1992 37
• De Chirico's Long American Shadow 1996 42
• Remembrance of Fairs Past 1989 57
• American Painting Since the Second World War 1958 62
• The Abstract Sublime 1961 72
• Arshile Gorky 1958 80
• Jackson Pollock 1988 84
• The Fatal Women of Picasso and De Kooning 1984 86
• Notes on De Kooning 1990 95
• Rothko's Surrealist Years 1981 100
• Rothko and Tradition 1987 109
• My Life with Rothko 122
• A View of Andrew Wyeth 1987 127
• Morria Louis at the Guggenheim Museum 1963 130
• Louise Nevelson 1959 135
• James Bishop:Reason and Impulse 1967 139
• Cy Twombly 1984 141
• Jasper Johns 1960 147
• Johns's Three Flags 1980 153
• Jasper Johns: Realm of Memory 1997 155
• Frank Stella, Five Years of Variations on an "Irreducible" Theme 1965 164
• Frank Stella, 1958 to 1965 1986 170
• Stella's Third Dimension 1983 180
• Pop Art and Non-Pop Art 1965 186
• Roy Lichtenstein and the Realist Revolt 1963 190
• Roy Lichtenstein: Past, Present, Future 1991 198
• Andy Warhol: Court Painter to the 70s 1979 205
• Andy Warhol: Portrait of the 80s a Postscript 1993 215
• ANDY WARHOL: PORTRAIT OF THE 80S A POSTSCRIPT 1993 216
• Warhol as Art History 1989 217
• Mel Ramos, How Venus Came to California 1994 238
• Notes on Sol Lewitt 1978 250
• Dan Flavln, Name in Lights 1997 264
• Alex Katz's American Accent 1986 268
• George Segal 1986 274
• Alfred Leslie 1976 279
• Remembering Joe Brainard 1997 285
• Robert Moskowitz 1983 290
• A Postscript: Some Recent Neo-Romantic Mutations 1993 294
• Scott Burton: the Last Tableau 1991 305
• Sturtevant 1987 310
• Mike Bidlo 1989 312
• Ric Fischl 1984 317
• David Salle 1985 322
• Mark Innerst's Time Capsules 1990 327
• Jeff Koons 1992 330
• Mike and Doug Starn 1990 339
• Mcdermott and Mcgough: the Art of Time Travel 1997 344
• A Bibliography of Writings 352
• List of Illustrations 366
• Index 376

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