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Alphabet of Terror, or, Eyes of Oedipus

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Description: Antifascism in American Art
The few public statements issued jointly by Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb in the early forties make it abundantly clear that the Second World War affected their thinking about art. They suggested on several occasions that their paintings related to the turbulence of their times. It is therefore tempting to point out a correspondence between their mythic imagery—which mingles references to Greco-Roman tragedies with a surrealist style—and the violence of the war. Neither artist, however, went …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.170-196
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00017.010
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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