Table of Contents

Introduction 10 How to Use this Book 14 Timeline 15 '85 New Wave 51 Abject Expressionism 53 Abstract/Abstraction 55 Abstract Expressionism 57 Academic Art 58 Action/Actionism 59 AIDS Art 61 Allegory 64 Alternative Space 64 Anti-Art 65 Antipodean Group 67 Appropriation 69 Art and Technology 70 Art Brut 71 Arte Povera 73 Art Informel 74 Artists' Books 74 Artists' Furniture 77 Art Market 78 Art World 79 Assemblage 80 "Bad" Painting 82 Bay Area Figurative Style 82 Biennial 85 Black Arts Movement 85 Body Art 87 Ceramic Sculpture 89 Chicago Imagism 89 CoBrA 92 Collaborative Art 92 Collage 95 Color-Field Painting 97 Comics Art 99 Commodification 100 Computer Art 101 Conceptual Art 103 Concrete Art 106 Constructivism 106 Contemporary 107 Contemporary Indigenous Australian Art 109 Content 110 Copy Art 111 Crafts-as-Art 112 Culture Wars 112 Cynical Realism 113 Dada 116 Dau al Set 117 Documentation 118 Dusseldorf School of Photography 118 Earth Art 120 East Village 121 El Paso 123 Existentialism 124 Expressionism 125 Fashion Aesthetic 126 Feminist Art 127 Figurative 130 Finish Fetish 131 Fluxus 132 Formal/Formalism 134 Found Object 134 Funk Art 135 Gesture/Gesturalism 136 Graffiti Art 137 Gutai 139 Happening 141 Hard-Edge Painting 142 Installation 143 Intermedia 145 Junk Sculpture 146 Kinetic Sculpture 147 Kitsch 149 Light-and-Space Art 150 Mail Art 151 Manipulated Photography 153 Media Art 154 Minimalism 155 Mission School 158 Modernism 160 Mono-ha 161 Mulheimer Freiheit 163 Multiculturalism 164 Multiple 165 Narrative Art 166 Neo-Concretism 168 Neo-Dada 170 Neo-Expressionism 171 Neo-Geo 173 New Image 174 New Leipzig School 176 New Media 178 New Realism 178 New Wave 180 Nouveau Realisme 181 Online Art 182 Op Art 184 The Other 186 Outsider Art 186 Painterly 188 Pathetic Art 189 Pattern and Decoration 191 Performance Art 192 Photo-Realism 194 Picture Plane 196 Pictures Generation 196 Pluralism 198 Political Art 199 Political Pop 200 Pop Art 202 Popular Culture 204 Post- 205 Postmodernism 206 Primitivism 208 Print Revival 209 Process Art 211 Public Art 212 Realism 215 Regionalism 215 Representation 216 Saint Ives Painters 216 Scatter Art 217 School of London 218 School of Paris 220 Semiotics 220 Shaped Canvas 221 Simulation 222 Situationism 223 Snapshot Aesthetic 224 Socialist Realism 226 Social Practice 226 Social Realism 229 Sots Art 229 Sound Art 231 Space Art 232 Spatialism 235 Staged Photography 236 Stars Group 238 Straight Photography 240 Street Art 243 Style 245 Surrealism 245 Transavantgarde 246 Tropicalism 248 Video Art 250 Young British Artists 252 Zeitgeist 255 Index 257 Photography Credits 287

About the Author

Robert Atkins, an art historian and writer, is a frequent contributor to Art in America and a former staff columnist for the Village Voice. Atkins is an authority on digital art, queer art and culture, and Chinese contemporary art. He is a pioneering online media producer and a founding member of Visual AIDS, creators of Day With(out) Art and the Red Ribbon. His other books include ArtSpoke and Censoring Culture.

Reviews

"In this important update of ArtSpeak, Atkins again offers reliable, succinct definitions of some 150 art terms, ideas, and movements, outlined in an easy-to-read, uniform format that gives the who, when, where, and what. Summing Up: Highly recommended." --CHOICE "In the end, ArtSpeak is informative and readable, a friendly invitation to better understand the language of contemporary art. Over its history, the book has transmuted from more or less a dictionary of terms into a relatively comprehensive survey of twenty-five years of art. Now, don't you want clearer understanding of movement Mono-ha?" --Rain Taxi Review of Books "The writing is simple, direct, nonjudgmental, and succinct. An essential update." --Library Journal, starred review "[ArtSpeak is] where you go to find out, quickly and clearly, what Semiotics means... It offers handy short takes on terms like commodification and formalism, along with the who, when, where, and sometimes why of Neo Dada, Neo-Expressionism, Neo-Geo, New Image, the New Leipzig school, New media, New Realism, New Wave, Nouveau Realisme, Socialist Realism, Social Realism, Social Practice, Space Art, and Spatialism, to name some more of the 146 categories in the book. It also explains what separates Pathetic Art from kitsch, and how Abject Expressionism differs from Abstract Expressionism." --ARTnews Praise for the previous editions: "From appropriation to manipulated photography to trans-avant garde, this handbook defines all the terms needed to sound au courant in the art world." --Village Voice "A must-have book for students, artists, collectors, and other interested observers." --Hartford Courant "A great book to take to the art museum." --Chicago Tribune "This is the book to carry on your next gallery crawl." --Art and Auction