PREFACE
As a professional artist and a teacher of many years at the School of Visual Arts in New York, I sometimes find myself guiding a group of students around a museum.
They are often bewildered.
In the space of a few minutes we may come across Renaissance angels, fearsome tribal masks, a canvas displaying nothing more than a geometric shape on a white ground, Impressionist views of sunny afternoons, photorealist paintings of Californian diners, and artworks that are simply typewritten sheets of instructions.
How can I begin to explain to my students what these products have in common and how they function as works of art? How can I convey what ideas, techniques, practices, superstitions, stylistic developments, and cultural contexts were ...
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