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Title Abstract expressionism : the international context / edited by Joan Marter
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2007]
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Description xii, 306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Contents Introduction : internationalism and abstract expressionism / Joan Marter -- The birth of abstract expressionism / Helen A. Harrison -- Implications of nationalism for abstract expressionism / Dore Ashton -- Disdain for the stain : abstract expressionism and tachisme / Serge Guilbaut -- Transatlantic anxieties, especially Bill's folly / David Anfam -- A legacy for the Latin American left : abstract expressionism as anti-imperialist art / David Craven -- Abstract expressionism as a model of "contemporary art" in the Soviet Union / Jane A. Sharp -- A new beginning : abstraction and the myth of the "zero hour" / Gottfried Boehm -- Ironic gestures : Asger Jorn, informel, and abstract expressionism / Karen Kurczynski -- Greenberg misreading Dubuffet / Kent Minturn -- Abstract expressionism's Italian reception : questions of influence / Adrian R. Duran -- The view from the east : the reception of Jackson Pollock among Japanese Gutai artists / Lewis Kachur -- Mexico and American modernism : the case of Jackson Pollock / Ellen G. Landau -- Pollock and America, too / Stephen Polcari -- The ultimate challenge for Alfred H. Barr, Jr. : transforming the ecology of American culture, 1924-1943 / Annie Cohen-Solal -- African American contributions to abstract expressionism / Ann Gibson
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-287) and index
Subject Abstract expressionism -- United States -- Congresses.
Abstract expressionism -- Influence -- Congresses.
Art, American -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Marter, Joan M.
LC no. 2006015182
ISBN 0813539749 hardcover alkaline paper
9780813539744 hardcover alkaline paper
0813539757 paperback alkaline paper
9780813539751 paperback alkaline paper