Robert Hughes - American Visions - 8th episode, part 4 of 5
"Age of Anxiety" (Episode Eight)
segment on Jeff Koons is concluded with interview . "Accusing him of hype is like rebuking a fish for being wet"
"The 1980s may have been a low, dishonest time for much American Art, but there were still serious artists around."
trip to New Mexico and visit with Susan Rothenberg.
Interview with Eric Fischl and his "Hoppersque narratives" painting the middle class as "positively deranged."
1980s and identity art -- "narrow, preachy, single-issue art in which the quest for victim credentials triumphs over aesthetic achievement."
a visit with Louise Bourgeois.
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