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The Syrian Bull

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Description: Reading Abstract Expressionism: Context and Critique
Despite continuing references in the scholarly and the popular press to the lasting artistic and cultural relevance of Abstract Expressionism, no comprehensive collection of essays related to this movement has been published since David and Cecile Shapiro’s Abstract Expressionism: A Critical Record and Clifford Ross’s Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics appeared in 1990...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.1-121
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00098.001
Description: Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s
The upbeat lyric by Ira Gershwin quoted in the epigraph, set to a bouncy, captivating melody recovered from the papers left by his recently deceased brother George, served as the official anthem of the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair. “Dawn of a New Day,” like the fair itself, exemplified one sort of possible response to recent, worrisome historical events. Its metaphors were not very fresh—gray skies, the wolf at the door—but the message was none the less attractive for that. Perhaps the hard …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.49-120
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00101.005

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