Art In America 1945-1970: Writings From The Age Of Abstract Expressionism, Pop A: (library Of America #259)
by Jed Perl /
2014 / English / EPUB
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Experience the creative explosion that transformed American art,
in the words of the artists, writers, and critics who were
there:
Experience the creative explosion that transformed American art,
in the words of the artists, writers, and critics who were
there: In the quarter century after the end of World War II, a
new generation of painters, sculptors, and photographers
transformed the face of American art and shifted the center of the
art world from Paris to New York. Signaled by the triumph of
abstraction and the ascendancy of painters such as Pollock, Rothko,
de Kooning, and Kline, this revolution generated an exuberant and
contentious body of writing without parallel in our cultural
history. In the words of editor Jed Perl, “there has never been a
period when the visual arts have been written about with more
mongrel energy—with more unexpected mixtures of reportage,
rhapsody, analysis, advocacy, editorializing, and philosophy.” Perl
has gathered the best of this writing together for the first time,
interwoven with fascinating headnotes that establish the historical
background, the outsized personalities of the artists and critics,
and the nature of the aesthetic battles that defined the era. Here
are statements by the most significant artists, and major critical
essays by Clement Greenberg, Susan Sontag, Hilton Kramer, and other
influential figures. Here too is an electrifying array of responses
by poets and novelists, reflecting the free interplay between
different art forms: John Ashbery on Andy Warhol, James Agee on
Helen Levitt, James Baldwin on Beauford Delaney, Truman Capote on
Richard Avedon, Tennessee Williams on Hans Hofmann, Jack Kerouac on
Robert Frank. The atmosphere of the time comes to vivid life in
memoirs, diaries, and journalism by Peggy Guggenheim, Dwight
Macdonald, Calvin Tomkins, and others. Lavishly illustrated with
scores of black-and-white images and a 32-page color insert, this
is a book that every art lover will treasure.
In the quarter century after the end of World War II, a
new generation of painters, sculptors, and photographers
transformed the face of American art and shifted the center of the
art world from Paris to New York. Signaled by the triumph of
abstraction and the ascendancy of painters such as Pollock, Rothko,
de Kooning, and Kline, this revolution generated an exuberant and
contentious body of writing without parallel in our cultural
history. In the words of editor Jed Perl, “there has never been a
period when the visual arts have been written about with more
mongrel energy—with more unexpected mixtures of reportage,
rhapsody, analysis, advocacy, editorializing, and philosophy.” Perl
has gathered the best of this writing together for the first time,
interwoven with fascinating headnotes that establish the historical
background, the outsized personalities of the artists and critics,
and the nature of the aesthetic battles that defined the era. Here
are statements by the most significant artists, and major critical
essays by Clement Greenberg, Susan Sontag, Hilton Kramer, and other
influential figures. Here too is an electrifying array of responses
by poets and novelists, reflecting the free interplay between
different art forms: John Ashbery on Andy Warhol, James Agee on
Helen Levitt, James Baldwin on Beauford Delaney, Truman Capote on
Richard Avedon, Tennessee Williams on Hans Hofmann, Jack Kerouac on
Robert Frank. The atmosphere of the time comes to vivid life in
memoirs, diaries, and journalism by Peggy Guggenheim, Dwight
Macdonald, Calvin Tomkins, and others. Lavishly illustrated with
scores of black-and-white images and a 32-page color insert, this
is a book that every art lover will treasure.