Twentieth-Century American Art

Jackson Pollock, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel, and Laurie Anderson are just some of the major American artists of the twentieth century. From the 1893 Chicago World's Fair to the 2000 Whitney Biennial, a rapid succession of art movements and different styles reflected the extreme changes in American culture and society, as well as America's position within the international art world.

This exciting new look at twentieth century American art explores the relationships between American art, museums, and audiences in the century that came to be called the American century. Extending beyond New York, it covers the emergence of Feminist art in Los Angeles in the 1970s; the Black art movement; the expansion of galleries and art schools; and the highly political public controversies surrounding arts funding. All the key movements are fully discussed, including early American Modernism, the New Negro movement, Regionalism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Neo-Expressionism.

Written by scholars at the forefront of new thinking, this book takes an exciting new look at 20th century American art and explores the era that came to be called the "American century." 65 color illustrations. 74 halftones.

Smart, imaginative and readable.--Patricia Hills, Boston University

Up-to-date overview that includes the often-excluded women and Black artists of the first half of the 20th century. Useful contextualizations of the period, especially in regard to marginalized artists.--Leslie Ava Shaw, New School University