Reframing abstract expressionism : subjectivity and painting in the 1940s /
"In the wake of World War II, the paintings of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, and other New York School artists participated in a culture-wide initiative to reimagine the self. At a time when widely held beliefs about human nature and the human condition were c...
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
[1993]
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Framing abstract expressionism
- The formation of an avant-garde in New York
- The mythmakers and the primitive : Gottlieb, Newman, Rothko and Still
- Jackson Pollock and the unconscious
- Narcissus in chaos : subjectivity, ideology, modern man and woman
- Pollock and metaphor.