Overview

With the emergence of Abstract Expressionism after World War II, the attention of the international art world turned from Paris to New York. Dore Ashton captures the vitality of the cultural milieu in which the New York School artists worked and argued and critiqued each other's work from the 1930s to the 1950s. Working from unsifted archives, from contemporary newspapers and books, and from extensive conversations with the men and women who participated in the rise of the New York School, Ashton provides a rich cultural and intellectual history of this period. In examining the complex sources of this important movement-from the WPA program of the 1930s and the influx of European ideas to the recognition in the 1950s of American painting on an international scale-she conveys the concerns of an extraordinary group of artists including Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, Philip Guston, Barnett Newman, Arshile Gorky, and many others. Rare documentary photographs illustrate Ashton's classic appraisal of the New York School scene.

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Author:   Dore Ashton
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780520081062

ISBN 10:   0520081064
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   01 October 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Author's note List of Illustrations Introduction Greenwich Village-and Depression z 'Hell, it's not just about painting!' 3 Artists and the New Deal 4 A Farrago of Theories 5 Studio Talk 6 The advent of Surrealism 7 Voices from Europe 8 Myth and Metamorphosis 9 American culture or mass culture? io Abstract Expressionism II Artists and Dealers 12 Existentialism 13 The Eighth-street Club 14 'Instantaneous tradition' 15 The end of an era Afterword References Index

Reviews

On structural grounds alone, Ashton's book is a marvel, compared with the one-eyed speculation of most art history. She is so determined to place the New York School in a broad cultural context that at times her book seems as much a study of literature and politics as of art during the 1930s and 1940s. --Douglas Davis, Newsweek

"""On structural grounds alone, Ashton's book is a marvel, compared with the one-eyed speculation of most art history. She is so determined to place the New York School in a broad cultural context that at times her book seems as much a study of literature and politics as of art during the 1930s and 1940s.""--Douglas Davis, ""Newsweek"

Author Information

Dore Ashton is Professor of Art History at The Cooper Union, New York, and the author of many books on modern art.

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