Abstract ExpressionismAbstract Expressionism
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Current format, Book, 2011, , Available . Offered in 0 more formatsAbstract Expressionism emerged in New York in the years immediately following the Second World War and quickly became one of the most powerful and influential movements in the history of modern art. Building on developments in European avant-garde art of the preceding decades, a wave of artists such as Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still developed a new abstraction that was simultaneously elemental and sophisticated. Though several of Abstract Expressionism's key figures were emigres, including Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann and Arshile Gorky, it was art's first definitively American movement, establishing New York as the new capital of artistic innovation for years to come while creating a visual language that would soon reach to the farthest corners of the globe.
Editor Katy Siegel has assembled a complete overview of the subject in three sections. The definitive Survey recounts in detail the movement's emergence, high period and later accomplishments, incorporating both contemporaneous critical writing and up-to-the-minute scholarship. The Works section presents large full-colour images of over 200 key artworks, each accompanied by an informative caption. And the Documents section provides a generous archive of primary and secondary texts, including artist's statements, exhibition reviews and critical writings. The extensive back matter includes biographies on all the artists and authors plus a full bibliography.
Surveys the American art movement through a historical overview, a gallery of over two hundred pieces, and a compilation of archival text that discuss the difficulties of defining and embracing the movement during its infancy.
Abstract Expressionism is a fresh and authoritative examination of one of the greatest art movements of the twentieth century, featuring works by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and many others.
Abstract Expressionism is a fresh and authoritative examination of one of the greatest art movements of the twentieth century, featuring works by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and many others.
An authoritative new look at the epic twentieth-century art movement.
Editor Katy Siegel has assembled a complete overview of the subject in three sections. The definitive Survey recounts in detail the movement's emergence, high period and later accomplishments, incorporating both contemporaneous critical writing and up-to-the-minute scholarship. The Works section presents large full-colour images of over 200 key artworks, each accompanied by an informative caption. And the Documents section provides a generous archive of primary and secondary texts, including artist's statements, exhibition reviews and critical writings. The extensive back matter includes biographies on all the artists and authors plus a full bibliography.
Surveys the American art movement through a historical overview, a gallery of over two hundred pieces, and a compilation of archival text that discuss the difficulties of defining and embracing the movement during its infancy.
Abstract Expressionism is a fresh and authoritative examination of one of the greatest art movements of the twentieth century, featuring works by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and many others.
Abstract Expressionism is a fresh and authoritative examination of one of the greatest art movements of the twentieth century, featuring works by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and many others.
An authoritative new look at the epic twentieth-century art movement.
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