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    Reading abstract expressionism : context and critique / edited and with an introduction by Ellen G. Landau.

    • Title:Reading abstract expressionism : context and critique / edited and with an introduction by Ellen G. Landau.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Landau, Ellen G.
    • Published/Created:New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2005.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Abstract expressionism--United States--Sources.
      Art, American--20th century--Sources.
    • Description:xiii, 716 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 665-706) and index.
    • ISBN:0300106130 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • Contents:Introduction : abstract expressionism : changing methodologies for interpreting meaning
      1940s : mythologizing the movement
      Excerpt from letter to his sister Vartoosh / Arshile Gorky
      Excerpt from "Art in New York" / Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko
      Excerpts from "The modern painter's world" / Robert Motherwell
      questionnaire / Jackson Pollock
      Thesis / Norman Lewis
      Application for a Guggenheim Fellowship / Jackson Pollock
      ideographic picture / Barnett Newman
      sublime is now / Barnett Newman
      My painting / Jackson Pollock
      romantics were prompted / Mark Rothko
      Excerpts from System and dialectics of art / John Graham
      Excerpt from "The realm of art : a new platform; 'globalism' pops into view" / Edward Alden Jewell
      Excerpt from "Whither goes abstract and surrealist art? / Maude Riley
      problem for critics / Howard Putzel
      Editorial preface / Robert Motherwell and Harold Rosenberg
      intrasubjectives / Samuel M. Kootz and Harold Rosenberg
      1950s : establishing authority
      Excerpts from artists' sessions at Studio 35 / Edited by Robert Goodnough
      David Smith makes a sculpture / Elaine de Kooning
      Statement / Clyfford Still
      de Kooning paints a picture / Thomas B. Hess
      Artist's statement / Louise Bourgeois
      legacy of Jackson Pollock / Allan Kaprow
      In the galleries : Franz Kline / Martica Sawin
      American action painters / Harold Rosenberg
      "American-type painting" / Clement Greenberg
      Excerpts from "The liberating quality of avant-garde art" / Meyer Schapiro
      International reaction to Alfred H. Barr Jr., "The new American painting"
      Revista / Mercedes Molleda
      La Libre Belgique / L. D. H.
      Le Phare / Unsigned
      Der Tagesspiegel / Will Grohmann
      1960s : consolidating the canon
      unwanted title : abstract expressionism / P. G. Pavia
      We interview Lee Krasner / Louise Elliott Rago
      abstract sublime / Robert Rosenblum
      Excerpts from American abstract expressionists and imagists / H. H. Arnason
      biomorphic '40s / Lawrence Alloway
      Jackson Pollock / Michael Fried
      Concerning the beginnings of the New York School, 1939-1943 : an interview with Peter Busa and Matta, conducted in Minneapolis in December 1966 / Sidney Simon
      Concerning the beginnings of the New York School, 1939-1943 : an interview with Robert Motherwell conducted in New York in January 1967 / Sidney Simon
      1970s : emerging contexts and closer readings
      Jungian aspects of Jackson Pollock's imagery / Judith Wolfe
      Residual sign systems in abstract expressionism / Lawrence Alloway
      Robert Motherwell's Elegies to the Spanish Republic / Robert C. Hobbs
      Excerpt from "Abstract expressionism : the politics of apolitical painting," part 3 / David Shapiro and Cecile Shapiro
      Graham, Gorky, de Kooning and the "Ingres revival" in America / Melvin P. Lader
      Symbolic pregnance in Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still / Donald B. Kuspit
      1980s : reading new significations
      new adventures of the avant-garde in America : Greenberg, Pollock, or from Trotskyism to the New Liberalism of the "vital center" / Serge Guilbaut
      James Joyce and the first generation New York School / Evan R. Firestone
      market for abstract expressionism : the time lag between critical and commercial acceptance / A. Deirdre Robson
      impact of Nietzsche and Northwest Coast Indian art on Barnett Newman's idea of redemption in the abstract sublime / W. Jackson Rushing
      rhetoric of abstract expressionism / Ann Gibson
      1990s : re(de)fining abstract expressionism
      Martha Graham and abstract expressionism / Stephen Polcari
      "Introduction," "Abstract expressionism and Afro-American marginalisation," and "Dissent during the McCarthy period" / David Craven
      Modern man discourse and the New York School / Michael Leja
      In defense of abstract expressionism / T. J. Clark
      Reconsidering the stain : on gender, identity, and New York School painting / Lisa Saltzman
      Of the earth, the damned, and of the recreated : aspects of Clyfford Still's earlier work / David Anfam
      Excerpt from "Water and lipstick : de Kooning in transition" / Richard Shiff
      Barnett Newman's stripe paintings and Kabbalah : a Jewish take / Matthew Baigell
      Arcadian nightmares : the evolution of David Smith and Dorothy Dehner's work at Bolton Landing / Joan M. Marter
      crisis of the easel picture / Rosalind E. Krauss.
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