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Shadows: Number 2, 1948

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Description: Shadows: Number 2, 1948
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Description: Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s
Jackson Pollock’s paintings have endured intense critical scrutiny since their first exhibition, and over the years, through repetition, elaboration, and consolidation of selected propositions, an orthodox assessment of their evolution and significance has become established. There are, to be sure, tensions and instabilities within this prevailing account of Pollock’s oeuvre, and there is considerable disagreement among scholars over some of its details and emphases; but its principal aspects, …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.275-327
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00101.008
Description: Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism
Once Upon a Time. When I first came across the lines by the duke of Aquitaine some years ago, naturally I imagined them in Jackson Pollock’s mouth. They put me in mind of modernism; or of one moment of modernism, which I realized I had been trying (and failing) to get in focus ever since I had read Harmonium or looked at Le Bonheur de vivre. Two things were clarified. Not just that modern artists often turned away from the detail of the world in order to revel in the work of …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.299-369
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00048.009

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