Learning Objectives

In addition to being able to recognize all of the key terms, artists, and artworks presented to you in the chapter, after reading the chapter you should be able to:

1.

explain the shift that occurred after World War II in the art world's focus of attention from Paris to New York as a center of new and vital ideas in art.

2.

discuss the predominance of Abstract Expressionism, which emanated from New York and became the defining style of a generation of artists immediately after WWII and throughout the 1950s.

3.

trace the various artistic reactions against Abstract Expressionism's fifteen-year domination of the art world, such as Neo-Dada, Pop Art, Superrealist sculpture, and Photorealist painting, with their emphases upon the intermingling of art and life as a counter to the art-for-art's-sake approach of Abstract Expressionism.

4.

describe how the trend toward non-representational imagery reaches its logical conclusion in Minimalism, with its attempt to rid itself of imagery altogether, and in Conceptualism, which seeks to eliminate the art object as well.

5.

discuss the role of feminism in shedding light upon the artistic contributions of various diverse groups from the past and in asserting the inclusion of diverse artists today.

6.

define pluralism and discuss it as an underlying principle of Postmodernism.

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