Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, December 10, 1986 - January 10, 1988. Organized by Julia Brown Turrell, and edited by Howard Singerman. Written contributions by Kate Linker, Donald Kuspit, Hal Foster, Ronald J. Onorato, Germano Celant, Achille Bonito Oliva, John C. Welchman, and Thomas Lawson. Artists in the exhibition include Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Sam Francis, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, Franz Kline, Moris Louis, Yves Klein, Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly, Brice Marden, Jasper Johns, Richard Diebenkorn, Agnes Martin, Ellsworth Kelly, Elizabeth Murray, Vija Celmins, Robert Ryman, Donald Sultan, Ed moses, Louise Bourgeois, David Smith, Louise Nevelson, Isamu Noguchi, Lucas Samaras, Eva Hesse, George Herms, Bruce Nauman, Keith Sonnier, Joel Shapiro, Mark Di Suvero, Robert Graham, Joseph Beuys, John Duff, Robert Therrien, Martin Puryear, Ken Price, Mark Lere, Dan Flavin, Larry Bell, Richard Serra, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Ricahrd Fleischner, Doug Wheeler, Michael Heizer, Robert Irwin, james Turrell, Joseph Cornell, Jannis Kounellis, William Wiley, Edward Kienholz, Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Rebecca Horn, Chris Burden, Anselm Kiefer, Susan Rothenberg, Tony Berlant, Eric Fischl, Francesco Clemente, Charles Garabedian, Julian Schnabel, Marcel Broodthaers, Robert Barry, Alexis Smith, Mike Kelley, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Edward Ruscha, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Billy Al Bengston, David Salle, Cindy Sherman, John Baldessari, Matt Mullican, Sigmar Polke. Includes checklist and index. Printed in color and black-and-white.