Abstract Expressionism: The Critical Developments

da : 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.