Introduction : the artist as author -- The act-painting -- The expressive fallacy -- Rhetorics of motives -- Self-discipline -- Event as painting -- Conclusion : gridlocked. "This is the first extended study of authorship in mid-20th century abstract painting in the US. It desc…
"This is the first extended study of authorship in mid-20th century abstract painting in the US. It describes how artists and critics used the medium of painting to advance their own claims about the role that they believed authorship should play in dictating the value, signific…
With Artist as Author, Christa Noel Robbins provides the first extended study of authorship in mid-20th century abstract painting in the US. Taking a close look at this influential period of art history, Robbins describes how artists and critics used the medium of painting to ad…