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The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984
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The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984

Eklund, Douglas
2009
352 pages
333 illustrations
New York Book Festival Award in Photography/Art, Honorable Mention (2009)
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Director's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Lenders to the Exhibition
Introduction

Image Art after Conceptualism: CalArts, Hallwalls, and Artists Space

The Jump: Appropriation and Its Discontents

"His Gesture Moved Us to Tears": Pictures Art in a Reinvigorated Market

Notes
Exhibition Checklist
Selected Bibliography
Index
Photograph Credits

Met Art in Publication

Spiritual America, Alfred Stieglitz American, Gelatin silver print
Spiritual America
Alfred Stieglitz
1923

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Eklund, Douglas. 2009. The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984. New York : New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Yale University Press.