Endgame: Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture

by Hal Foster, Thomas E. Crow, Yve-Alain Bois, et al.

Preface by David A. Ross Endgame provides the first comprehensive discussion of two interrelated groups of artists who have recently emerged amidst brisk critical debate and who all, in various ways, represent a critique of the commodity, or the commodification of art objects. These are the painters Ross Bleckner, Peter Halley, Sherrie Levine, and Philip Taaffe, who have ironically adopted the visual strategies of earlier modern artists, and the sculptors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262521180
• ISBN13: 9780262521185
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 115 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.