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William Baziotes, Robert Motherwell, and painting by Jackson Pollock

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Description: William Baziotes, Robert Motherwell, and painting by Jackson Pollock

TitleWilliam Baziotes, Robert Motherwell, and painting by Jackson Pollock

Creator nameKarger, George

Creator nationality/cultureUnknown

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation datec. 1945

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsUnknown

DimensionsUnknown

LocationLife Magazine

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsArtists and models in artArtists--PortraitsAbstract expressionism

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1. The Formation of the Avant-Garde in New York

Description: Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s

Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s

Foucault’s injunction to historians quoted in the epigraph has immediate and literal relevance to the study of painting in New York during the 1940s. If we are in the midst of “redefining” or “reappraising” that art, as it has become fashionable to contend, an examination of the conventional categories structuring our understanding of the period would seem a necessary part of that process. The central category is, of course, Abstract Expressionism, or the New York School. Redefinition …

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PublisherYale University Press

Copyright© 1993 by Yale University

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00101.004

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Chapter subject tags:New York school of artAvant-garde (Aesthetics)--United States--History--20th centuryAbstract expressionism--United StatesArt criticism--United States--History--20th centuryGreenberg, Clement, 1909-1994Guilbaut, SergeRothko, Mark, 1903–1970Gottlieb, Adolph, 1903-1974Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956Newman, Barnett, 1905-1970

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