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Michael Corris examines Ad Reinhardt’s life and work, charting the development of his entire oeuvre - from abstract paintings, to graphic artwork, to illustrations and cartoons.

"Leaving Skull City by Michael Corris is a compilation of insightful, first-hand accounts of art making, art criticism, and exhibition organizing from the early 1970s to the present."--Back cover.

Inside a New York Art Gang provides a vivid account of an episode of the "political turn" in art during the 1970s in New York.Revolving around the work of a section of the conceptual art group, Art & Language, the volume contains previously unpublished materials and texts that are rare and difficult to find. The texts comprise a documentary history of the group's activities and the relationships that were forged with other artist-initiated organizations, art institutions, and political activists.Inside a New York Art Gang introduces the reader to the major issues, internal tensions, alliances, and ideological fault lines that defined this little-known period in the history of the avant-garde in New York.Subjects covered include: the relation between art and politics, the founding and publication of The Fox, the interventions of Artists Meeting for Cultural Change, and the political and the cultural program of the Anti-Imperialist Cultural Union. Also included are excerpts from previously unpublished transcripts of the final conversations held among members of Art & Language; discussions that would lead to the dissolution of the group in New York and the publication of a new periodical on art and politics, Red-Herring.

Who puts smiley faces over Warhol-esque silkscreens of Bruce Lee in full howling attack? Who superimposes loungey, gentlemanly, portraits of himself over Jackson Pollock's canvases, as if to take blasª responsibility for their drips? And who makes a tryptich in which Lee and Pollock face off? While we're at it, who puts a black Saint George's cross on a red flag? David Diao, whose artistic life "began thirty years ago very much under the influence of Greenbergian formalism." Diao has since wrestled and mastered twin artistic and racial dragons many times over. Of his "MoMa" series he says, ..".here I stand, a real slanted-eye Asian, desiring however ambivalently to be in the MoMA... in any case I don't mind poking fun at myself at the same time. I am there, smack in the center of the muck."

A highly illustrated survey of the use of words (or language) in art. Art, Word and Image asks what it means when a painting is 'invaded' by language - how do the two forms converse and combine, and what messages are intended for the viewer?

An artist's book of satirical illustrations showing the consequences of the inequitable distribution of power. It's a great American graphic novel, a guidebook for plutocrats and their subjects yearning to be free. A procession of scenes of mendacity, exclusion, duplicity and violence that may or may not be on the way out!