ISBN9780300247404:vol2-p0085-01

AS WE HAVE SEEN, DURING THE MID-1940S MUCH OF MOTHERWELL’S MOST INNOVATIVE WORK WAS done in collage, and in the months after his 1944 solo exhibition at Art of This Century, his paintings seemed to be going in many different...

Author

Jack Flam

PublisherYale University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00105.007

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Chapter subject tags:Abstract ExpressionismPainting, American--20th centuryInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)Installations (Art)--Exhibitions

1. The Abstract Expressionist Hero

Ann Eden Gibson

Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics

JACKSON POLLOCK PEERS from a dark interior over a foreground crowded with cans of paint, squinting warily at readers from the pages of the 9 November 1959 issue of Life magazine (fig. 2). Despite its title, “Baffling U.S. Art,” the article accompanying the photograph calls Pollock’s work the most influential in the world and credits him with having created a style that was “tense, explosive, mysterious, and altogether new.” The tone of the posthumous article (Pollock died in an automobile …

Author

Ann Eden Gibson

PublisherYale University Press

CopyrightYale University Press 1999

Related print edition pages: pp.1-17

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00006.005

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Chapter subject tags:Abstract expressionism--United StatesGender identity in artPollock, Jackson, 1912-1956Motherwell, RobertMasculinity in artKrasner, Lee, 1908-1984Art criticism--United States--History--20th centuryGreenberg, Clement, 1909-1994Sexual minorities in artSmith, David, 1906-1965

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