[2005]
"Abstract Expressionism is arguably the most important art movement in postwar America. Many of its creators and critics became celebrities, part
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Reading abstract expressionism : context and critique
Introduction : abstract expressionism : changing methodologies for interpreting meaning -- 1940s : mythologizing the movement -- Excerpt from letter to his sister Vartoosh / Excerpt from "Art in New York" / Excerpts from "The modern painter's world" / questionnaire / Thesis / Application for a Guggenheim Fellowship / ideographic picture / sublime is now / My painting / romantics were prompted / Excerpts from System and dialectics of art / Excerpt from "The realm of art : a new platform; 'globalism' pops into view" / Excerpt from "Whither goes abstract and surrealist art? / problem for critics / Editorial preface / intrasubjectives / 1950s : establishing authority -- Excerpts from artists' sessions at Studio 35 / David Smith makes a sculpture / Statement / de Kooning paints a picture / Artist's statement / legacy of Jackson Pollock / In the galleries : Franz Kline / American action painters / "American-type painting" / Excerpts from "The liberating quality of avant-garde art" / International reaction to Alfred H. Barr Jr., "The new American painting" -- Revista / La Libre Belgique / Le Phare / Der Tagesspiegel / 1960s : consolidating the canon -- unwanted title : abstract expressionism / We interview Lee Krasner / abstract sublime / Excerpts from American abstract expressionists and imagists / biomorphic '40s / Jackson Pollock / Concerning the beginnings of the New York School, 1939-1943 : an interview with Peter Busa and Matta, conducted in Minneapolis in December 1966 / Concerning the beginnings of the New York School, 1939-1943 : an interview with Robert Motherwell conducted in New York in January 1967 / 1970s : emerging contexts and closer readings -- Jungian aspects of Jackson Pollock's imagery / Residual sign systems in abstract expressionism / Robert Motherwell's Elegies to the Spanish Republic / Excerpt from "Abstract expressionism : the politics of apolitical painting," part 3 / Graham, Gorky, de Kooning and the "Ingres revival" in America / Symbolic pregnance in Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still / 1980s : reading new significations -- new adventures of the avant-garde in America : Greenberg, Pollock, or from Trotskyism to the New Liberalism of the "vital center" / James Joyce and the first generation New York School / market for abstract expressionism : the time lag between critical and commercial acceptance / impact of Nietzsche and Northwest Coast Indian art on Barnett Newman's idea of redemption in the abstract sublime / rhetoric of abstract expressionism / 1990s : re(de)fining abstract expressionism -- Martha Graham and abstract expressionism / "Introduction," "Abstract expressionism and Afro-American marginalisation," and "Dissent during the McCarthy period" / Modern man discourse and the New York School / In defense of abstract expressionism / Reconsidering the stain : on gender, identity, and New York School painting / Of the earth, the damned, and of the recreated : aspects of Clyfford Still's earlier work / Excerpt from "Water and lipstick : de Kooning in transition" / Barnett Newman's stripe paintings and Kabbalah : a Jewish take / Arcadian nightmares : the evolution of David Smith and Dorothy Dehner's work at Bolton Landing / crisis of the easel picture
Landau, Ellen G., editor, writer of introduction.
Arshile Gorky -- Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko -- Robert Motherwell -- Jackson Pollock -- Norman Lewis -- Jackson Pollock -- Barnett Newman -- Barnett Newman -- Jackson Pollock -- Mark Rothko -- John Graham -- Edward Alden Jewell -- Maude Riley -- Howard Putzel -- Robert Motherwell and Harold Rosenberg -- Samuel M. Kootz and Harold Rosenberg -- Edited by Robert Goodnough -- Elaine de Kooning -- Clyfford Still -- Thomas B. Hess -- Louise Bourgeois -- Allan Kaprow -- Martica Sawin -- Harold Rosenberg -- Clement Greenberg -- Meyer Schapiro -- Mercedes Molleda -- L.D.H. -- Unsigned -- Will Grohmann -- P.G. Pavia -- Louise Elliott Rago -- Robert Rosenblum -- H.H. Arnason -- Lawrence Alloway -- Michael Fried -- Sidney Simon -- Sidney Simon -- Judith Wolfe -- Lawrence Alloway -- Robert C. Hobbs -- David Shapiro and Cecile Shapiro -- Melvin P. Lader -- Donald B. Kuspit -- Serge Guilbaut -- Evan R. Firestone -- A. Deirdre Robson -- W. Jackson Rushing -- Ann Gibson -- Stephen Polcari -- David Craven -- Michael Leja -- T.J. Clark -- Lisa Saltzman -- David Anfam -- Richard Shiff -- Matthew Baigell -- Joan M. Marter -- Rosalind E. Krauss.
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2005
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