Thomas E. Crow Books
Modern Art in the Common Culture
Must avant-garde art hold itself apart from the values and beliefs widely held in the common culture? Must advanced artists always be the symbolic adversaries of the ordinary citizen? These questi...
Read MoreThe Long March of Pop: Art, Music, and Design, 1930-1995
"Thomas Crow's paradigm-changing book challenges existing narratives about the rise of Pop Art by situating it within larger cultural tides. While American Pop was indebted to its British predecess...
Read MoreJasper Johns to Jeff Koons
By Thomas E. Crow, Stephanie Barron
"Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), is the first large-scale exhibition of the Broads' achievemen...
Read MoreThe intelligence of art
By Thomas E. Crow, Thomas Crow
Keeping the fundamental act of art history - the process of interpreting art and making it "intelligible" - foremost, Thomas Crow contributes a refreshing analysis of the present state of the disci...
Read MoreThe rise of the sixties
The 1960s have become fixed in our collective memory as an era of political upheaval and cultural experiment. Visual artists working in a volatile milieu sought a variety of responses to the turmoi...
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