Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience

Polcari, Stephen

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Editorial: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993

0521448263 / 9780521448260

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xxiii, 408 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps. Profusely illustrated. *** "A major revisionist study of the art and artists who participated in what is now regarded as the first American style of international consequence. Based on examinations of new archival material and many unknown paintings, this study relates Abstract Expressionism to the actual historical circumstances, as well as intellectual and cultural milieu, of America from the 1930s to the 1950s. Stephen Polcari reverses the traditional perspective of Abstract Expressionism as an abstract art inspired by issues of the postwar period. Examining its roots in the art of the 1930s and 1940s, he contends that Abstract Expressionism emerges as a public art that actively engaged in the social, economic, and political crises of the 1930s, and, more significantly, the experience of World War II. Polcari provides an account of the contemporary artistic, intellectual and cultural history to establish a macro-history of human beings under the pressures of war, fear, torment, and hope. Within this context, he convincingly presents Abstract Expressionism as a mode of modern, metaphysical 'history' painting that uses the forms and devices of modern art to come to terms with the brutality of contemporary history." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. The History and Culture of Abstract Expressionism: 1. The psychology of crisis: historical roots; 2. Propaedeutics: intellectual roots; Part II. The Artists: 3. Clyfford Still: of plenitude and power; 4. Mark Rothko: 'In My Beginning is My End'; 5. Adolph Gottlieb: the allegorical epic; 6. Barnett Newman: new beginnings; 7. William Baziotes: tremors of history; 8. Jackson Pollock: ancient energies; 9. Willem de Kooning: a fever of matter; 10. Robert Motherwell: the school of Paris meets New York; 11. The expansiveness of abstract expressionism Conclusion; 12. Vernacular abstraction: the domestication of abstract expressionism in the 1950s; Epilogue. Size: 4to.

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Título
Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience
Autor
Polcari, Stephen
Editorial
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Año de publicación
1993
Estado
Near Fine
Encuadernación
Paperback
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
0521448263
ISBN 13
9780521448260
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Movements::Abstract Expressionism, USA::6. Late Modern, 1945-1999, XXL::Extra Extra Large, XXX::COLLECTIBLES

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