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New Met Exhibit Traces a Decade of Change  

Five years in the making, ''The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984'' at the Metropolitan Museum Art is based on a 1977 exhibit at the Artists Space in New York City and takes its name from the Pictures Generation. This small group of New York based artists looked at the scope of the images around them, in advertising, media and art, and realized that the art world wasn't engaging with, or criticizing, what had become an image-obsessed world. . . .

Our reactions are stalled as we try to process how to react to what looks and feels like something from a magazine: Welling's series ''And Should'' (1974), where Winston cigarette ads are cropped and superimposed over photographs;

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