Pictures and the Past: Media, Memory, and the Specter of Fascism in Postmodern Art

A fresh take on the group of artists known as thePicturesGeneration, reinterpreting their work as haunted by the history of fascism, the threat of its return, and the effects of its recurring representation in postwar American culture.

The artists of the Pictures Generation, converging on New York City in the late 1970s, indelibly changed the shape of American art. Rebelling against abstraction, they borrowed liberally from the aesthetics of mass media and sometimes the work of other artist...