In this exhilarating book, Anne Middleton Wagner challenges readers
to rethink the work of a range of post-World War II artists -
Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Maya Lin, Bruce Nauman, and Agnes Martin
among them - and thus to re-assess the relationship of art to
politics and social life. The art of U.S. empire, she argues, is
marked by deep dividedness. Painters and sculptors seemed entranced
by American symbols, yet used them to enigmatic ends - exuberant,
nightmarish, or both. Nor could postwar culture decide if it
preserved sites devoted to productive withdrawal - for artists, the
special zone called the studio - or simply maintained a margin
where numbed subjects rehearsed the rites of vanished
self-expression. This book charts the to-and-fro in recent American
art between acknowledging the facts of nation and consumerism, and
searching for meaningful models. And it shows that this process
engages - even structures - national history and the citizen's
self.
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