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American images : the SBC collection of twentieth-century American art / foreword, Edward Whitacre ; preface, Laura Carey Martin ; introduction, Walter Hopps ; essays, Betsy Fahlman [and others] ; afterword, Peter Marzio.

New York : SBC Communications Inc. : Harry N. Abrams, ©1996.

320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Presents the corporate art collection of SBC Communications discussing each piece's reflection of a cultural, intellectual, or economic theme.

SBC Communications -- Art collections -- Catalogs.

Art, American -- 20th century -- Catalogs.

Art -- Private collections -- New York (State) -- New York -- Catalogs.

Art -- New York (State) -- New York -- Catalogs.

Catalogs.

Fahlman, Betsy.

SBC Communications.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-311) and index.

Foreword / Edward Whitacre -- Preface / Laura Carey Martin -- Introduction / Walter Hopps -- The American Scene. Realism: Tradition and Innovation / Betsy Fahlman. The Vigor of Americanism / Matthew Baigell -- Modern Before 1945. The Lure of the Modern / Susan C. Larsen. Order, Structure, and the Continuity of Modernism / William C. Agee -- Mid-Century Innovation. The Adventures of the New York School / Dore Ashton. No Mere Formality / Peter Plagens -- From Pop to Minimalism. The Deluge of Popular Culture / Irving Sandler. Minimalism and Its Opposition / John R. Clarke -- Contemporary Diversity. The Personal as Political / Leslie King-Hammond. Ethnicity, Outsiderness, New Regionalism / Jacinto Quirarte. Art After Modernism: The Pluralist Era / John Beardsley -- Afterword / Peter Marzio.

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