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<b>For a one/two-semester, undergraduate-level course on Postwar Art.</b></p> </p> Exceptionally comprehensive and authoritative, this extensively illustrated survey of art since 1940 stresses the <i>individuality</i> of the artists in relation to their political, social, and cultural contexts, and focuses on <i>the meaning</i> of the major works and innovations.</p> </p> For more information on Jonathan Fineberg, please visit his website at: http: //www.jonathanfineberg.com/</p> </p> <b>ABOUT THE COVER: </b></p> The premise of this book is that artists use their art to think about their experience; it gives them a language in which to work out a way of existing in the world. The front and back of the cover are illustrated with some of the great artists featured in the book doing their work.</p> </p> FRONT COVER: </p> 1. Yoko Ono in the first performance of Cut Piece, Yamaichi Hall, Kyoto, 1964 </p> photo courtesy Lenono Photo Archive (c) Yoko Ono</p> 2. Ann Hamilton wearing her 1984 # 13: Toothpick Suitchair</p> photo courtesy Ann Hamilton Studio</p> 3. Josef Beuys lecturing with a blackboard, New York, 1974</p> photo photo by Peter Moore (c) Estate of Peter Moore/ VAGA, New York</p> 4. Ilya Kabakov performing <i>The Walk with Ilya Kabakov</i>, Moscow, circa 1980</p> photo (c) Yuri Rost</p> 5. Christo and Jeanne-Claude talking to workers at <i>The Gates </i>assembly plant in Queens, N.Y., February 2005 photo Wolfgang Volz</p> 6. Jackson Pollock painting, East Hampton, N.Y., 1950</p> (c) The Pollock-Krasner Foundation ARS, NY and DACS, London 2010, photo by Hans Namuth. Courtesy Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona. Photograph (c) Hans Namuth Estate</p> </p> SPINE: </p> 7 Cai Guo-Qiang in <i>The Century with Mushroom Clouds-Projects for the 20th Century</i>, 1996</p> Photograph by Hiro Ihara, courtesy of the artist</p> </p> BACK COVER: </p> 8. Roxy Paine welding <i>Conjoined</i>, Madison Park, N.Y.C., 2007 </p> photo (c) Sofia M. Paine</p> 9. L