Pictures and the Past av Alexander Bigman

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A fresh take on the legacy of the group of artists known as the Pictures Generation, reinterpreting their work as haunted by the history of fascism and the threat of its return. The artists of the Pictures Generation, converging on New York City in the late 1970s, indelibly changed the shape of American art. It has long been thought that this group¿s main contribution was to rebel against abstraction by bringing back figural techniques and borrowing liberally from the aesthetics of mass media. In Pictures and the Past, however, art critic and historian Alexander Bigman presents us with a bold new interpretation of the artists¿ most significant work, in particular its recurring evocations of fascist iconography. Challenging conventional narratives, Bigman argues that the artists of the original Pictures¿show, curated by Douglas Crimp in 1977¿especially Sarah Charlesworth, Jack Goldstein, Troy Brauntuch, Robert Longo, and Gretchen Bender¿posed pressing questions about what it means to pe