The pluralist era: American art, 1968-1981

1. SoHo and the seventies.

2. Process and conceptual art.

3. Art and politics: The advent of the "artworker", the black artist, and women artists in the seventies.

4. Earth sculptures, site works, and installations.

5. Pattern painting and decorative art.

6. Representation: super realism, new image painting and "bad" painting.

7. Abstraction: plain and planar painting after pop art and minimalism.

8. Photography, video, and performance.