New Spirit, New Sculpture, New Money: Art in the 1980s
By Unknown Author.
Description
The second part of a four-volume set of art criticism by Richard Cork, written over a 30-year period. It offers a chronicle of a turbulent period as well as an overview and survey of British art and its reception at this time. This particular work addresses the art of the 1980s. The 1980s began with an aggressive attempt to reassert the old dominance of painting, but a major exhibition in London, "A New Spirit in Painting", included some, like Per Kirkeby and A.R. Penck, who regarded paint on canvas as only one way of working among many. It also gave prominence to a range of figur...
ISBN(s)
0300095090, 9780300095098
