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Guardians of the Secret

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Description: Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné (Volume 1: Essays and References)
Richard Diebenkorn, the only child of a West Coast family, was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1922. Two years later his father, Richard Clifford Diebenkorn Sr.—a sales executive with Dohrmann & Co., a prominent restaurant and hotel supply company—was reassigned to the firm’s main office in San Francisco, where they had lived prior to Diebenkorn’s birth and had always...
PublisherYale University Press
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00300.2
Description: Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s
Although several of the New York School painters took pains to make it clear, at certain stages of their careers, that their art engaged “the unconscious,” none pursued this engagement more insistently than Jackson Pollock. As his friend and colleague James Brooks put it, Pollock’s “break into the irrational was the most violent of any of the artists’, and his exploration of the unconscious, the most daring and persistent.” Although persistent, Pollock’s engagement with the unconscious was by no …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.121-202
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00101.006
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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