With pleasure : pattern and decoration in American art, 1972-1985

With pleasure : pattern and decoration in American art, 1972-1985 / edited by Anna Katz ; essays by Elissa Auther, Anna Katz, Alex Kitnick, Rebecca Skafsgaard Lowery, Kayleigh Perkov, Sarah-Neel Smith, and Hamza Walker.

The Pattern and Decoration movement emerged in the 1970s as an embrace of long-dismissed art forms associated with the decorative. Pioneering artists such as Miriam Schapiro (1923-2015), Joyce Kozloff (b. 1942), Robert Kushner (b. 1949), and others appropriated patterns, frequently from non-Western...

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Main Authors: Katz, Anna, 1981- (Author, Editor, Curator), Lowery, Rebecca (Author, Curator), Auther, Elissa (Author), Kitnick, Alex, 1981- (Author), Perkov, Kayleigh (Author), Smith, Sarah Neel (Author), Walker, Hamza (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles, California : New Haven, Connecticut : The Museum of Contemporary Art ; Yale University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Art, American > 20th century > Themes, motives > Exhibitions.
Art, American > 20th century > Criticism and interpretation.
Repetitive patterns (Decorative arts) > United States > Influence > History > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Decorative arts > United States > Influence > History > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Decoration and ornament > United States > Influence > History > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Decoration and ornament in art > Exhibitions.
Art movements > United States > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Essays.
Illustrated works.
Table of Contents:
  • Director's Foreword
  • Curator's Acknowledgements
  • Lessons in Promiscuity: Patterning and the New Decorativeness in Art of the 1970s and 1980s / Anna Katz
  • Miriam Schapiro and the Politics of the Decorative / Elissa Auther
  • Infinite Progress: Criss-Cross and the Gender of Pattern Painting / Rebecca Skafsgaard Lowery
  • A Meeting of Two Minds: Oleg Grabar and Amy Goldin on the Met's Islamic Art Galleries, 1975 / Sarah-Neel Smith
  • Rebecca Morris and the Revenge of P&D / Hamza Walker
  • Pattern Consciousness: Counterculture-Influenced Interior Design / Kayleigh Perkov
  • Cosmopolitanism and Antagonism: On Public Art, Postmodern Architecture, and P&D / Alex Kitnick
  • Historical Reprints
  • Patterns, Grids, and Painting (1975) / Amy Goldin
  • Negating the Negative (An Answer to Ad Reinhardt's "On Negation") (1976) / Joyce Kozloff
  • On Affirmation / Joyce Kozloff
  • Issues in Pattern Painting (1977) / John Perreault
  • An Intuitive Analysis of Decoration and Pattern Painting (1977) / Susan Michod
  • Artists Biographies
  • Exhibition History / Frances Lazare
  • Bibliography / Frances Lazare.

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