Title Abstract expressionist painting in America / William C. Seitz

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Published for the National Gallery of Art, Washington, by Harvard University Press, 1983

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Description xxii, 490 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm regular print Series The Ailsa Mellon Bruce studies in American art Ailsa Mellon Bruce studies in American art. Contents Foreword / by Robert Motherwell. -- Introduction / by Dore Ashton. -- The spread of abstract expressionism. -- Pictorial elements. -- Pictorial relationships. -- The creative process. -- The problem of opposites. -- Subject matter and content. -- The artist and society. -- The historical position of abstract expressionism. -- Appendix: Motherwell's chronology of abstract expressionism Analysis American paintings Abstract expressionism to 1950 American paintings Abstract expressionism, to 1950 - Critical studies Notes Originally presented as the authors's thesis (doctoral--Princeton, 1955) Originally presented as the authors's thesis (doctoral--Princeton, 1955) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes Also issued online Subject Abstract expressionism -- United States. Painting, Abstract -- United States. Painting, American -- 20th century. Author National Gallery of Art (U.S.) LC no. 82018734 ISBN 0674002156 (alk. paper)

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