Bernstein, responding to cultural criticism of postmodern visual art, especially Jameson, suggests that the visual arts have a "vitality" that is "not adequately accounted for by either the detractors or the promoters of postmodernism"
a list including Philip Guston, Agnes Martin, Louise Bourgeois, Lawrence Weiner, Arakawa and Gins
and some names new to me: Jake Berthot, Robert Colescott, Malcolm Morely, Alice Aycock, Nancy Spero, Mimi Gross, Pat Steir, David Reed, Elizabeth Murray
he notes that his "close association with, and active commitment to, the paintings of Susan Bee make her work my most active example"
see "For M/E/A/N/I/N/G" in M/E/A/N/I/N/G #1 (1986)