这本令人眼花缭乱的书展示了来自美国各地的40多位艺术家的数量惊人的作品，探讨了美国这场艺术运动对传统上被认为是女性化的，手工的或劣于美术的艺术形式的挑衅式的采用。

除了概述公认的“图案和装饰”运动，本书还探讨了通常与该运动无关的那个时期的艺术家。这种全景式的观点重新思考了战后美国艺术中图案和装饰的重要性，为抽象，女权主义和装置艺术提供了新见解。文章探讨了这场运动的女权主义方法和价值观，包括米里亚姆•沙皮罗（Miriam Schapiro）的“女性化”实践；它对当代抽象绘画的影响；及其与后现代建筑和设计的关系。艺术家传记，展览历史以及对具有历史意义的著作的重印进一步将《乐在其中》确立为关于该主题的最全面的出版物。

A timely and expansive survey of a groundbreaking American art movement that overturned aesthetic hierarchies in a riot of color and ornamentation

The Pattern and Decoration movement emerged in the 1970s as an embrace of long-dismissed art forms associated with the decorative. Pioneering artists such as Miriam Schapiro (1923–2015), Joyce Kozloff (b. 1942), Robert Kushner (b. 1949), and others appropriated patterns, frequently from non-Western decorative arts, to produce intricate, often dizzying or gaudy designs in media ranging from painting, sculpture, and collage to ceramics, installation art, and performance. This dazzling book showcases an astonishing array of works by more than 40 artists from across the United States, examining the movement’s defiant adoption of art forms traditionally viewed as feminine, craft-based, or otherwise inferior to fine art.

In addition to offering an overview of the Pattern and Decoration movement as it is commonly recognized, this volume considers artists of the period who are not typically associated with the movement. Rethinking the significance of patterns and the decorative in postwar American art, this panoramic view provides new insights into abstraction, feminism, and installation art. Essays explore the movement’s feminist methods and values, including Miriam Schapiro’s “femmage” practice; its impact on contemporary abstract painting; and its relationship to postmodern architecture and design. Artist biographies, an exhibition history, and reprints of historically significant writings further establish With Pleasure as the most expansive publication on the subject.