Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience - Brossura

Polcari, Stephen

 
9780521448260: Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience

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A major revisionist study of Abstract Expressionism.

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Descrizione del libro

Polcari provides an account of the contemporary artistic, intellectual and cultural history to establish a macrohistory of human beings under the pressures of war, fear, torment, and hope. Within this context, he convincingly presents Abstract Expressionism as a mode of modern, metaphysical 'history' painting that uses the forms and devices of modern art to come to terms with the brutality of contemporary history.

Contenuti

List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. The History and Culture of Abstract Expressionism: 1. The psychology of crisis: historical roots; 2. Propaedeutics: intellectual roots; Part II. The Artists: 3. Clyfford Still: of plenitude and power; 4. Mark Rothko: 'In My Beginning is My End'; 5. Adolph Gottlieb: the allegorical epic; 6. Barnett Newman: new beginnings; 7. William Baziotes: tremors of history; 8. Jackson Pollock: ancient energies; 9. Willem de Kooning: a fever of matter; 10. Robert Motherwell: the school of Paris meets New York; 11. The expansiveness of abstract expressionism Conclusion; 12. Vernacular abstraction: the domestication of abstract expressionism in the 1950s; Epilogue.

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