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In its spatial and temporal senses, the prefix meta signifies “beyond”: situated after, past, above, underneath, or even behind something else. Applied to a concept or category, meta usually identifies a set of issues, operations, or objects that supersede or transcend whatever else corresponds to the type. The merely “beyond” becomes the...

Author

Richard Shiff

PublisherYale University Press

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00235.001

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Chapter subject tags:Abstract Expressionism--United StatesPainting, American--20th centuryColor-field paintingBetty Parsons GalleryArt criticism--United States--History--20th century

5. The Relevance of Contingency

Ann Eden Gibson

Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics

A CRITIC WRITING about Perle Fine in 1945 complained that she had “not yet solved the important problem of inventing a personal style.” By 1946 she had moved from Kandinsky through Klee and Miró (fig. 87). But at the same time she was painting works like Nautical Composition Provincetown, 1946 (fig. 88), a pastiche of representational modes such as trompe-l’oeil (the rope), symbol (the stylized forms standing for water in the lower right), and nonobjective geometricity. The Guggenheim Museum’s …

Author

Ann Eden Gibson

PublisherYale University Press

CopyrightYale University Press 1999

Related print edition pages: pp.87-113

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00006.009

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Chapter subject tags:Abstract expressionism--United StatesWomen artists--United States--20th centuryFine, Perle, 1905-1988Von Wiegand, CharmionOssorio, Alfonso, 1916-1990Minorities in artArt criticism--United States--History--20th centurySterne, Hedda, 1910-2011Blaine, Nell, 1922-1996Alston, Charles, 1907-1977

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