Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • New York in the forties. New York becomes the center
  • The sense of a new movement in New York
  • A dialog with Europe. Alexander Calder
  • Hans Hofmann
  • Arshile Gorky
  • Robert Motherwell
  • Willem de Kooning
  • Existentialism comes to the fore. Jackson Pollock
  • Barnett Newman
  • Mark Rothko
  • David Smith and the sculpture of the New York School
  • The new European masters of the late forties. Jean Dubuffet and postwar Paris
  • The extentialist figuration of Alberto Giacometti
  • Francis Bacon
  • Some international tendencies of the fifties. Purified abstraction
  • "New images of man" in Europe and America
  • The beat generation : the fifties in America. "A Coney Island of the mind" : the Beats and John Cage
  • Robert Rauschenberg
  • Appropriating the real : junk sculpture and happenings
  • Claes Oldenburg
  • Jasper Johns
  • The European vanguard of the later fifties. Nouveau rβealisme
  • Joseph Beuys
  • British pop : from the Independent Group to David Hockney
  • The landscape of signs : American pop art 1960 to 1965. The electronic consciousness and New York pop
  • Andy Warhol
  • Roy Lichtenstein
  • James Rosenquist
  • H.C. Westermann, Peter Saul, and the Hairy Who
  • West Coast pop
  • Robert Arneson
  • In the nature of materials : the later sixties. Back to first principles
  • minimal art
  • Eva Hesse and investigations of materials and process
  • Bruce Nauman and Richard Serra
  • Artists working in the landscape
  • Arte povera, and a perserving rapport with nature in Europe
  • Politics and postmodernism : the transition to the seventies. Re-radicalizing the avant-garde
  • Christo and Jeanne-Claude
  • Postmodernism
  • Surviving the corporate culture of America of the seventies. A new pluralism
  • Romare Bearden
  • Alice Aycock
  • Philip Gustonʹs late style
  • Painting at the end of the seventies. New expressionist painting in Europe
  • The peculiar case of the Russians
  • New imagist painting and sculpture
  • The eighties. A fresh look at abstraction
  • American neo-expressionism
  • Post-modern installation
  • Appropriation
  • New tendencies of the nineties
  • To say the things that are oneʹs own.