Whitney Museum of American Art 1989: Biennial Exhibition Catalogue (Whitney Biennial)

Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co. (28 Mar 1990)
Language: English

The Whitney Museum of Modern Art, founded in 1920 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, has presented biennial surveys of contemporary modern American art, selected by its curatorial staff, for over 60 years. This volume contains a study of the 1989 Exhibition, including art, film and video selections.

我想此目錄介紹得很精要. 美國藝術家的作品多少可以反映時代之氛圍

譬如說80年代日本的產品之競爭力很強給美國很大的壓力
本書至少有二則與此相關

一是頁192-93的照片: Who Killed Vincent Chin? 1988 by Christine Choy and Renee Tajima
Chin 是當年在底特律被誤以為是日本人而被殺的.

頁38的Big Japanese Industrialist #2 1959 by Michael Byron 細讀其隱約文字有諸如 Buy Your Toyota... 等等文字而畫類似超現實主義之作.....