ISBN9780300247404:vol2-p0065-01

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

3. Individualism, Universalism, and the Cold War

Ann Eden Gibson

Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics

IN 1945, JEAN-PAUL Sartre observed of Americans, “It is when he is acting like everyone else that he feels most reasonable and most American; it is in displaying his conformism that he feels freest. . . . The peculiarity of the American, on the other hand, is that he regards his thought as universal.” In fact, the belief that the individual is the source and the repository of all social rights and human creativity was a legacy of the great eighteenth-century revolutions in the West. To …

Author

Ann Eden Gibson

PublisherYale University Press

CopyrightYale University Press 1999

Related print edition pages: pp.43-57

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00006.007

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Chapter subject tags:Abstract expressionism--United StatesIndividualism in artGottlieb, Adolph, 1903-1974Art, Modern--African influencesSexual minorities in artRothko, Mark, 1903–1970Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956Motherwell, Robert

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