David Anfam

Carter Ratcliff

Susan Davidson

Jeremy Lewison

In 1946 the art critic Robert Coates, writing in the New Yorker, first used the term 'Abstract Expressionism'. The two words combine the emotional intensity of the German Expressionists with the anti-figurative aesthetic of the European Abstract schools. Although they were being painted by then little-known artists working in low-rent studio space, works of Abstract Expressionist art now dominate the walls of major museums. The last major collective Abstract Expressionism exhibition to have taken place in the UK occurred in 1959. This important publication, and the exhibition it accompanies, seek to redress the balance and re-evaluate the movement, recognising its complex and fluid reality, and branching further into multimedia. As such, this book encompasses sculptors such as David Smith and photographers such as Aaron Siskind as well as some of the most famous painters of the twentieth century, including Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky and Clyfford Still. AUTHOR: David Anfam is the author of the now-standard textbook Abstract Expressionism (1990). Susan Davidson is Senior Curator, Collections and Exhibitions, at the Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Edith Devaney is Curator of Contemporary Projects at the Royal Academy of Arts. Jeremy Lewison is former Director of Collections at Tate. Carter Ratcliff wrote Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art (1996). Christian Wurst was researcher on The Catalogue Raisonné of the Drawings of Jasper Johns (forthcoming). SELLING POINTS: * Accompanies the first major exhibition of Abstract Expressionism in the UK since 1959 * Works of Abstract Expressionist art dominate the walls of major museums around the world * Features an impressive range of experts who discuss some of the signature paintings of the movement 300 colour

Abstract Expressionism

Jasper Sharp

Don Quaintance

Valentina Sonzogni

Francis O'Connor

Philip Rylands

The Story Of Art Of This Century

Peggy Guggenheim & Frederick Kiesler

Adam Grey

Tom Vickers

Ruby Speed

James Pike

Women's Oppression Under Capitalism

Walter Hopps

Marcel Duchamp

Ecke Bonk

Joseph Cornell

Lynda Roscoe Hartigan

Artwork by Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp. Contributions by Walter Hopps. Text by Susan Davidson, Ann Temkin.

Joseph Cornel

Rosalind E. Krauss

Nancy Spector

Tricia Brown

Steve Paxton

Robert Rauschenberg

Ruth E. Fine

Billy Kluver

Julie Martin

Charles F. Stuckey

A Retrospective

Robert Rauschenberg 

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Terra Foundation for American Art

Art in America is an introduction to the major movements in American art, from the Hudson River and Ashcan schools to Abstract Expressionism and Pop art. Divided chronologically into six chapters and covering the period from 1700 to the present day, it examines how the art of each era both reflected and contributed to the nation's complex visual narrative. A detailed introduction considers the paradoxes in American art, and six authoritative illustrated essays examine such subjects as the cultural impact of the American Civil War, and the global and national position of American art at the end of the twentieth century. Featuring a selection of beautifully reproduced iconic and little-known images, Art in America is an exploration of how the cultural, political, ethnic, economic, and natural landscape of America has shaped national identity and consciousness.

300 Years of Innovation

Art in America

David White (Curator)

Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Edited by Susan Davidson. Text by Trisha Brown, Mimi Thompson. Preface by Philip Rylands.

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Susan Davidson

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