In this collection of critical essays the well-known critic Barry
Schwabsky reexamines the art produced since the 1960s, demonstrating how
the achievements of "high modernism" remain consequential to it, through
tensions among representation, abstraction, and pictorial language. With
the core of the book focused on Michelangelo Pistoletto and Mel Bochner,
Schwabsky also studies the work of emerging artists who also continue to
examine modernism's legacies.