Selections from the Permanent Collection II: American Art on Paper from the 1960s to the Present

January 23 - April 25, 2004

In connection with American Art of the 1980s, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum surveys its collection of works on paper to present some of the major artistic movements in the United States over the last four decades. Pop, minimalism, conceptualism, and photo-realism, continuing through the identity politics of the 1990s, are represented by a selection of works by major American artists. Stroll through the exhibition and revisit such evolutions in art history as the introduction of popular culture into art, the appropriation of commercial print technologies, the creation of the work of art not as a representation of something else but as an object in itself, and the rise of issues relating to race, gender, and political suppression. Included are works by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, Joseph Kosuth, On Kaware, Leon Golub, Glenn Ligon, Vic Muniz, Annette Lemieux, Garry Winogrand, Susan Silton, and Allan Sekula.