The New York School - A Cultural Reckoning (Paper)

1. Auflage 1992
ISBN: 978-0-520-08106-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 358 g

With the emergence of Abstract Expressionism after World War II, the attention of the international art world turned from Paris to New York. Dore Ashton captures the vitality of the cultural milieu in which the New York School artists worked and argued and critiqued each other's work from the 1930s to the 1950s. Working from unsifted archives, from contemporary newspapers and books, and from extensive conversations with the men and women who participated in the rise of the New York School, Ashton provides a rich cultural and intellectual history of this period. In examining the complex sources of this important movement—from the WPA program of the 1930s and the influx of European ideas to the recognition in the 1950s of American painting on an international scale—she conveys the concerns of an extraordinary group of artists including Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, Philip Guston, Barnett Newman, Arshile Gorky, and many others. Rare documentary photographs illustrate Ashton's classic appraisal of the New York School scene.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ashton, Dore

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Surrealismus, Abstrakter Expressionismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Author's note                     
  List of Illustrations                
  Introduction
  Greenwich Village—and Depression      
z 'Hell, it's not just about painting!'
3 Artists and the New Deal              
4 A Farrago of Theories                
5 Studio Talk                           
6 The advent of Surrealism              
7 Voices from Europe                    
8 Myth and Metamorphosis               
9 American culture or mass culture?    
io Abstract Expressionism              
II Artists and Dealers                 
12 Existentialism                      
13 The Eighth-street Club              
14 'Instantaneous tradition'           
15 The end of an era                   
  Afterword                            
  References                           
  Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dore Ashton is Professor of Art History at The Cooper Union, New York, and the author of many books on modern art.