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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
During this critical decade in American life, artists built on the styles of the 1950s. An explosion of artistic energy produced Pop art, Minimalism, color-field painting, and hard-edged abstraction. Sculptors and painters on both coasts explored new methods and new subject matter. American art in the sixties examines the key figures of that decade including Rauschenberg and Johns, two crucial transitional figures between Abstract Expressionism and...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Of the generation following the abstract expressionists, Don Judd was one of the key figures among American artists who pioneered new directions in the 1960s. He was born in the Midwest in 1928, eventually settled in New York and supported himself by writing for art magazines. At Columbia University, under Rudolf Wittkower and Meyer Schapiro, he earned a masters degree in art history. Judd had begun as a painter but soon was drawn to making objects...
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Publisher
Thames & Hudson, Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An absorbing group biography revealing how exiles from war-torn France brought Surrealism to America, helping to shift the centre of the art world from Paris to New York and spark the movement that became Abstract Expressionism. In 1957 the American artist Robert Motherwell made an unexpected claim: "I have only known two painting milieus well: the Parisian Surrealists, with whom I began painting seriously in New York in 1940, and the native movement...
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Series
Publisher
Taschen
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
From the streets of New York to the walls of its most prominent galleries, young graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was catapulted to international fame in his early 20s and died of a drug-overdose at 27. The subject of a feature film by fellow artist Julian Schnabel, Basquiat is one of the most admired artists to emerge from the 1980s art boom. This book explores his short but prolific career.
12) Joan Mitchell
Publisher
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping retrospective exploring the oeuvre of an incandescent artist, revealing the ways that Mitchell expanded painting beyond Abstract Expressionism as well as the transatlantic contexts that shaped her. Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) was fearless in her experimentation, creating works of unparalleled beauty, strength, and emotional intensity. This gorgeous book unfolds the story of an artistic master of the highest order, revealing the ways she...
Author
Publisher
Radius Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Helen Frankenthaler: Late Works, 1988-2009 is the first book to explore the late period of Frankenthaler's art and life. Profusely illustrated with more than 95 plates and 40 archival images, the book features essays by Douglas Dreishpoon and Suzanne Boorsch; a roundtable discussion with Katharina Grosse, Pepe Karmel, and Mary Weatherford; an illustrated chronology and selected bibliography. Initiated by Dreishpoon, Director of the Helen Frankenthaler...
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