Issue edited by Philip Leider. Essays "Cubism in Los Angeles," by Rosalind Krauss; "German Painting of the 19th Century at Yale," by Kenworth Moffett; "The Language of Pre-Abstract Art," by John Elderfield; "West Coast Blues," by Peter Plagens; "Talking to Alan Shields," by Emily Wasserman; "The Sculpture of James Reineking," by Knute Stiles; "The Tradition of Escape-From-Tradition," by M. Yang Mei; "Sorting out the Whitney Annual," by Joseph Masheck. Reviews by Robert Pincus-Witten, Kenneth Baker, Kasha Linville, Jerrold Lanes, Jerome Tarshis, Peter Plagens, Thomas H. Garver. Cover: Alan Shields.
