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EARLY IN 1943, ROBERT MOTHERWELL UNDERWENT AN EXPERIENCE THAT RADICALLY CHANGED THE direction of his art. The gallerist Peggy Guggenheim approached him, Jackson...

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Katy Rogers

PublisherYale University Press

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

Abstract Expressionism: Changing Methodologies for Interpreting Meaning

Ellen G. Landau

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...

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Ellen G. Landau

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.1-121

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Chapter subject tags:Abstract expressionism--United StatesNew York school of artArt movementsHistoriographyArt criticism--History--20th century

Abstract Expressionism and Modernist Identity

Ellen G. Landau

Mexico and American Modernism

The differences in specific emphases and styles notwithstanding, New York School artists took their subjectivity as thematic in their work, a subjectivity they imagined as “interior.” . . . The “subjects of the artist” were the artists as subjects. Michael Leja, Reframing...

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Ellen G. Landau

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.120-148

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Chapter subject tags:Modernism (Art)Abstract expressionismSubjectivity in art

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

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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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