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This book presents a refreshing new approach to avant-garde art by demonstrating that a genuine core of modernism manifests a positive, life-affirming attitude.
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American art of the 1980s is as misunderstood as it is notorious. Critics of the time feared that market hype and self-promotion threatened the integrity of art
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How does something as potent and evocative as the body become a relatively neutral artistic material? From the 1960s, much body art and performance conformed to