Frank Goodyear

Don't look now, but while America's critical establishment was busy waging a culture war over identity politics, the next generation of artists simply moved on. In Remix: New Modernities in a Post-Indian World, artists and curators Joe Baker and Gerald McMaster bring together the work of fifteen artists of mixed Native/non-Native heritage from the United States, Canada, and Mexico to create a mini-museum for a post-race, post-ethnicity, "post-Indian" world. Personal and political, this art and the accompanying texts raise issues that resonate far beyond the American art scene--questions about the meaning of ethnic and racial identity in an increasingly global society, the tension between self-expression and the templates of mass culture, and individuals' freedom to adapt or reject elements of tradition without losing their claim on the past. Through words and images, Remix challenges readers interested in art and criticism to question the meaning of cultural identity in our complex, fluid age.… (mais)

Contemporary American Realism since 1960 was published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, September 1981. The opening chapter gives an overview and defines contemporary realism. Each of the five remaining chapters then considers a different aspect: Portraits, Nudes and the Figure Outdoors; Narrative painting; The New Landscape: Rural and Urban America; Still Life; and finally The Realistic Alternative in American Sculpture and Conclusion. The book includes a bibliography, list of illustrations and an index.

The book is well illustrated with 56 colour plates and 144 black and white illustrations. Most of the images are a good size with many full page, however often the images do not take full advantage of the large format. The quality of reproduction is very good with even the monochrome images providing a good representation.

There are around 100 artists included in the study, among them William Bailey, Richard Estes, Robert Bechtle, Joseph Raphael, Philip Pearlstein, George Segal, Jack Beal, Alfred Leslie, Alec Katz, Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver, Andrew Wyeth and Jamie Wyeth.

11" x 9" (28 cm x 22.8 cm) Published 1981 (this edition printer 1984) ISBN 0821215612. 256 pages. Paperback… (mais)