Pictures Generation

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The Pictures Generation refers to a loose group of American artists who worked primarily in New York in the 1970s and early 1980s . However, these artists never formed a group with this name. The name Pictures Generation was coined retrospectively by the exhibition The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984 , which took place at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from April 29 to August 2, 2009.

The beginning of the Pictures Generation was marked by the group exhibition Pictures curated by the art critic Douglas Crimp , which took place in the New York exhibition space “Artists Space” in the fall of 1977, as well as his eponymous, style-defining text Pictures . The exhibition featured works by Troy Brauntuch , Jack Goldstein , Sherrie Levine , Robert Longo and Philip Smith . In addition to these five artists, a few other artists are attributed to the Pictures Generation, such as Cindy Sherman , Louise Lawler , Barbara Kruger , Sherrie Levine and Richard Prince . Their common intention is to reject modernity . As the first generation, these artists grew up with the mass media such as film, television and magazines, which they strategically appropriated in their work (see Appropriation Art ). As a result, the representatives of the Pictures Generation, like the Pop Art artists before them, worked with recognizable images . Her works illustrate the critical zeitgeist of the decade and thus the ideas of the postmodernists emerging at that time .

literature

  • Douglas Crimp: Pictures . In: October, 8 (spring 1979), pp. 75-88.
  • The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984 . Exhibition catalog of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York from April 21 to August 2, 2009. Douglas Eklund (Ed.), New York 2009.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Douglas Crimp: Pictures . In: October, 8 (spring 1979), pp. 75-88
  2. ↑ See The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984 . Exhibition catalog of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York from April 21 to August 2, 2009. Douglas Eklund (Ed.), New York 2009.
  3. ↑ Cindy Sherman . Exhibition catalog of The Museum of Modern Art, New York from February 26th to June 11th 2012. Eva Respini (Ed.), Munich 2012, p. 25.