Abstract Expressionism: The Critical Developments (English)

Michael Auping, with essays by Ann Gibson, Donal Kuspit, Michael Leja, Marcelin Pleynet, Richard Shiff, David Sylvester and a Interview with Lawrence Alloway

ISBN 10: 0810918668 / ISBN 13: 9780810918665

Published by Harry N. Abrams, 1987

About this Item

da : 24 x 30 cm, 302 pages, 85 color and 85 bw plates and illustrations - The book featured work from 1936 to 1960, which was when a new generation of abstract artists (strongly aided by formalist criticism and codifications) began to emerge. Auping s intention was to demonstrate how the work of the late 30s and early 40s paved the way for the breakthroughs of the Abstract Expressionists in the decade and a half before 1960 thus showing us the critical developments in the gestation of our first truly American abstract movement. artists William Baziotes, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Mark Tobey, and Bradley Walker Tomlin.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Abstract Expressionism: The Critical Developments (English)
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810918668
• ISBN 13: 9780810918665
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Gut bis sehr gut
• Dust Jacket Condition: Gut bis sehr gut
• Seller catalogs:
  • Drawing
  • Kunst im 20.Jahrhundert
  • Painting

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Synopsis

Shows works by Still, Rothko, Pollock, Newman, Motherwell, Kline, Hoffman, Gottlieb, and Gorky, and takes a fresh look at the movement

Reviews

Based on an important exhibition at Albright-Knox Art Gallery, this book clarifies Abstract Expressionism. Curator Michael Auping and seven critics treat issues such as the movement's formative years, the painter Gorky's development in the creative climate of the 1940s, and the movement's artistic heirs. The works of Pollock, de Kooning, Kline, Motherwell, and others are re-evaluated using a better definition of Abstract Expressionism's goals. This book provides text, chronology, and bibliographic notes for research and specialized collections. Highly recommended. Paula A. Baxter, Museum of Modern Art Lib., New York
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