Bringing together fifteen original and path-breaking essays by world-class authorities on Abstract Expressionism as well as by younger scholars, this anthology looks beyond the canonical painters to explore the broader connections among abstract artists of the post-World War II era. Moving from the margins to the center, the essays recognize the contributions of artists working far beyond New York City. Topics include Jackson Pollock's contact with Mexican muralists and the legacy of Abstract Expressionism for leftist ...
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Bringing together fifteen original and path-breaking essays by world-class authorities on Abstract Expressionism as well as by younger scholars, this anthology looks beyond the canonical painters to explore the broader connections among abstract artists of the post-World War II era. Moving from the margins to the center, the essays recognize the contributions of artists working far beyond New York City. Topics include Jackson Pollock's contact with Mexican muralists and the legacy of Abstract Expressionism for leftist artists in Latin America, the relevance of Jean-Paul Sartre and Samuel Beckett as sources of philosophical thought, the significance of northern European CoBrA painters such as Asger Jorn, the impact of Japanese Gutai artists, and connections with the revolutionary art of Italy, Belgium, and France. Abstract Expressionism is also described as a model for contemporaneous developments in the former Soviet Union.
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Good. 306pp. Text is notated in pencil for the first half of the text-otherwise pages are clean with lovely b/w photography throughout. White text block is scuffed faintly scuffed. Glossy covers are bright with minimal wear at the corners and rear surface. Binding remains square.
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VG (small tear to top of spine, pages, wraps and block are otherwise very crisp and clean, aside from top right corner, which has bent. ) Bw illustrated wraps, xii, 306 pp, bw and color illustrations; 16 unnumbered pages of plates. A collection of essays that discuss abstract expressionist art. Contents include: Introduction: internationalism and abstract expressionism / Joan Marter--The birth of abstract expressionism / Helen A. Harrison--Implications of nationalism for abstract expressionism / Dore Ashton--Disdain for the stain: abstract expressionism and tachisme / Serge Guilbaut--A legacy for the Latin American left: abstract expressionism as anti-imperialist art / David Craven--Abstract expressionism as a model of "contemporary art" in the Soviet Union / Jane A. Sharp--A new beginning: abstraction and the myth of the "Zero hour" / Gottfried Boehm--Ironic gestures: Asger Jorn, Informel, and abstract expressionism / Karen Kurczynski--Greenberg misreading Dubuffet / Kent Minturn--Abstract expressionism's Italian reception: questions of influence / Adrian R. Duran--The view from the East: the reception of Jackson Pollock among Japanese Gutai artists / Lewis Kachur--Mexico and American modernism: the case of Jackson Pollock / Ellen G. Landau--Pollock and America, too / Stephen Polcari--The ultimate challenge for Alred H. Barr, Jr. : transforming the ecology of American culture, 1924-1943 / Annie Cohen-Solal--African American contributions to abstract expressionism / Ann Gibson.
