"The Pictures Generation" : The hallowed halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York would seem an unlikely setting for "The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984" ; an exhibition of artistic insurgents who dissected the images and words of the mass media with cutting ken. Artforum asked art historians Michael Lobel and Howard Singerman to reflect on the show's picturing of a moment that holds great sway over our own.

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