Artist as Author
Action and Intent in Late-Modernist American Painting
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2021
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-75295-2 (ISBN)
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-75295-2 (ISBN)
With Artist as Author, Christa Noel Robbins provides the first extended study of authorship in mid-20th century abstract painting in the US. Taking a close look at this influential period of art history, Robbins describes how artists and critics used the medium of painting to advance their own claims about the role that they believed authorship should play in dictating the value, significance, and social impact of the art object. Robbins tracks the subject across two definitive periods: the “New York School” as it was consolidated in the 1950s and “Post Painterly Abstraction” in the 1960s. Through many deep dives into key artist archives, Robbins brings to the page the minds and voices of painters Arshile Gorky, Jack Tworkov, Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, Sam Gilliam, and Agnes Martin along with those of critics such as Harold Rosenberg and Rosalind Krauss. While these are all important characters in the polemical histories of American modernism, this is the first time they are placed together in a single study and treated with equal measure, as peers participating in the shared late modernist moment.
Christa Noel Robbins is associate professor of art history at the University of Virginia. Her essays and reviews have been published in a variety of outlets, including Art in America, Oxford Art Journal, Art History, and the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and she was the advisory editor of North American modernism for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism.
Introduction. The Artist as Author
Part I
Chapter One. The Act-Painting
Chapter Two. The Expressive Fallacy
Chapter Three. Rhetoric of Motives
Part II
Chapter Four. Self-Discipline
Chapter Five. Event as Painting
Chapter Six. Conclusion: Gridlocked
Acknowledgments
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 30.06.2021 |
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Zusatzinfo | 15 color plates, 45 halftones |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
Gewicht | 853 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
ISBN-10 | 0-226-75295-X / 022675295X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-75295-2 / 9780226752952 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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