American and European Art in the Era of Dissent

The Rise of the Sixties:
American and European Art in the Era of Dissent

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/events/the-rise-of-the-sixties-american-and-european-art-in-the-era-of-dissent-1610240/

Date/Time:Tue., May 26, 6:30pm
Price: Free
Contact Info: 305-375-4073

Eat Some Crow

BY P. SCOTT CUNNINGHAM

No need to wait until 2012 for the new Miami Art Museum building to
be completed; MAM has a ton of diverse programming for the
intellectually starved local. Besides its JAM@MAM parties and the
Morning Lecture Series, the museum also hosts an art book discussion
group at Books & Books in Coral Gables. This Tuesday, the group will
delve into Thomas Crow's 2005 tome, The Rise of the Sixties: American
and European Art in the Era of Dissent. A professor of art history at
the University of Southern California, Crow wrote this influential
study of that sexiest of decades in 1996, and the book has gone on to
become the definitive interpretation of how '60s artists such as
Warhol and Twombly fit in with the contemporary social, cultural, and
intellectual movements.

Purchase the book in advance at Books & Books for 20 percent off, or
show up ignorant and mooch off the other brains at work. Just don't
be the douchebag who hasn't read the book yet finds a way to dominate
the discussion nonetheless.

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