Changing Boundaries and Nature of the Modern Art World

Richard Kalina is Professor of Art at Fordham University, USA. He is the Editor of Imagining the Present: Context, Content, and the Role of the Critic (2006) and a Contributing Editor to the monthly magazine Art in America.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsCopyright CreditsIntroduction Figures1. “Real Dead” 2. “Al Held” 3. “In Another Light” 4. “The Reality of Abstraction”5. “The Uncomfortable Armchair: Abstraction and Decoration”6. “Wandering Color: Arbitrariness, Disjunction, and Decoration in American Art of the Sixties” 7. “The Rutgers Group: Garden State Avant-Garde” 8. “Expressing the Abstract”9. “Gees Bend Modern” 10. Excerpts from Imagining the Present: Context, Content and the Role of the Critic11. “Ab-Ex Confidential: The Way They Were”12. “Martín Ramírez: Narratives of Displacement and Memory” 13. “The Dream of Aboriginal Art” 14. “The Guardians of the Avant-Garde”15. “Robert Morris: The Order of Disorder”16. “West of Eden”17. “Harmony & Discord” 18. “The Four Corners of Painting” 19. “Talk/Show: Language and the Resistant Artwork”20. “Stop, Look and Listen! Mel Bochner Strong Language” 21. “Through Color” 22. “Hold Still: Looking at Photo-Realism”23. “The Here and Then”24. “Art Between Form and Anti-Form”25. “Frames and Personas”26. “Inside Outsider”27. “The Unusual Suspects: A View of Abstraction”Index

For over 30 years, artist and critic Richard Kalina has asked his readers to look beyond artworld rhetoric for authenticity and value in our ever-changing visual landscape. This selection of essays traces key developments and A-list artists, while foregrounding influences and individuals on the margins of accepted artworld practices.