Articles of ‘Eric Fischl’

By Stephen Knudsen
I will admit, as academia clamors to find some term for “whatever-we-call-coming-after” postmodernism, I long for the days of yore when the nomenclature took little effort. Often, names came as easy as quips: Malevich meant no compliment when he easily coined “construction art” to describe the work of Alexander Rodchenko. Then [...]

Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago
Curated by Helen Molesworth
By Jeriah Hildwine
Political art risks providing lazy answers to the search for meaning, an undergraduate’s surrogate for personal significance in one’s work. In other cases (Richard Serra’s Stop Bush lithograph from the 2006 Whitney Biennial), established artists put the muscle of their name behind a cause more [...]