The abstract paintings of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Lee Krasner, Clyfford Still, Helen Frankenthaler and others revolutionized the art world in the 1940s and 1950s and continue to inspire passionate arguments to this day. What were these artists trying to achieve? Who were the critical voices of the time that rallied ...
The American artist Arthur Dove (1880-1946), purportedly the first artist to have produced an abstract painting, has always occupied a central place in writings on early American modernism. This book accompanies the first major exhibition on Dove since 1974. The exhibition, organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art and the Phillips ...
A painter and printmaker of strong talent and intellect, Ellen Lanyon has been described by art historian Lucy Lippard as a "rare and peculiar American breed--an honest, unpretentious, accessible, visionary artist, not unaware of, but resolutely independent of the imposed mainstreams of fashion." Naturalist and fantasist, her chief artistic ...
Nobel Prize-winner Heaney introduces a volume that richly reflects every aspect of Hadzi's career, from intimate studio photographs to large architectural commissions. Hadzi's works in bronze and stone are powerfully abstract and expressionist, yet involved with the past as a literary and aesthetic source.
Philip Guston did these 75 ink drawings of Richard Nixon in 1971, but when Guston died in 1980, they were still unpublished. Now they appear with an introduction by Debra Bricker Balken, who found the drawings among his effects while doing research for another book.
When Duchamp moved from Paris to New York in 1915, he was disappointed by the predominantly nature-based abstraction he observed, publicly proclaiming that American artists were too dependent on outmoded European traditions and had overlooked their greatest subjects -- the skyscraper and the machine. Meanwhile, the artists associated with Alfred ...
"After Many Springs" is the title of a Thomas Hart Benton painting that evokes nostalgia for a fertile, creative time gone by. This bold new book - taking the name of this work by Benton - examines the intersections between Regionalist and Modernist paintings, photography, and film during the Great Depression, a period when the two approaches to ...
Movements in Modern Art seriesAccessible introductions to the most important and influential art movements of the twentieth century; Each book includes illustrations of major works from collections around the world; Expert authors write for a general readership The term Abstract Expressionism, though coined by critics and resisted by some of the ...
Industrial landscape paintings by John Moore executed over the last three decades focus on sites from Conneaut, Ohio, to Waterville, Maine, including Coatesville, Pennsylvania, a locale that has inspired such American Modernists as Charles Demuth and Ralston Crawford. Moore has revisited places in Coatesville and throughout the rustbelt that he ...
From the outset of her career, Georgia O'Keeffe credited her introduction to modernism as deriving in part from a reproduction of a pastel by Arthur Dove she saw around 1913. By this time Dove was well established as the foremost modernist artist in America, yet O'Keeffe herself would later become a source of renewal for his work.Renowned scholar ...
Focuses on drawings that grew out of Guston's (1912-1980) interactions and collaborations with poets during the last decade of his life. Long associated with the New York School of painters, in the late 1960s Guston turned from abstract work and began integrating lines, passages and, in some cases,
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