Whirlwind. Contemporary American Art 1960-2000

This volume stands as a compendium of the history of contemporary American art and a living testimony of a sincere and active protagonist Thanks to his numerous and continuous sojourns in the United States since the sixties, art historian Germano Celant has had the occasion to meet and converse with the leading figures of American culture, those who, over the years, created rifts and scandals, from Gehry to Mapplethorpe. His interdisciplinary, historical vision has allowed him to cross-analyse art and architecture, photography and performance and visual research offering a point of view that intersects the past and the present.
Art from America presents essays devoted to the movements of American art - from Pop to Minimal Art, Conceptual to Land Art and Inexpressionism to Graffitism - as well as documentation of those who were their reference figures. Artists included: Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Carl Andre, Siah Armajani, Christo, Jim Dine, Dan Flavin, Michael Heizer, Keith Haring, Jeff Koons, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim and Andy Warhol, as well as artists who have emerged over the last ten years such as Tom Friedman, Kara Walker, Tom Sachs and Vik Muniz.