This anthology, edited by Patricia Hills, includes 160 entries of writings and documents by artists, critics, exhibition organizers, poets, and politicians on the issues and controversies of twentieth-century art movements.  The topics are organized into seven historic periods, with a summary of each period at the beginning, and then sections, also with summaries, dealing with diverse issues. Topics include:  realism as a radical project; modernism and American consciousness; Machine Age modernity; the “New Negro” and the jazz age; photography as art; photography as force for social change; art for the people; abstract expressionism; the Cold War and the arts; Pop Art in New York, Chicago, and California; Conceptual Art and Earthworks; Political and Anti-war art; Black Arts movement; Feminist movement; postmodernism; Identity politics and body art; art in public spaces; censorship and the culture wars.  Authors include:  Robert Henri, John Sloan, W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Strand, Lewis Hine, Marcel Duchamp, Louis Lozowick, William Carlos Williams, Waldo Frank, Alain Locke, Langston Hughes, Philip Evergood, Kenneth Fearing, Jacob Lawrence, Diego Rivera, Stuart Davis, Meyer Schapiro, Clement Greenberg, Harold Rosenberg, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, David Smith, Leon Golub, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Allen Ginsberg, Robert Rauschenberg, Leo Steinberg, Andy Warhol, Lucy R. Lippard, Michael Fried, Lawrence Alloway, Sol LeWitt, Robert Smithson, Alice Neel, Lowery Stokes Sims, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Max Kozloff, Amiri Baraka, Michele Wallace, Moira Roth, Hal Foster, Robert Storr, Guiliermo Gómez-Pena, Alan Wallach, Gran Fury, and many others.

Published by Prentice Hall in 2001.