"In this acclaimed revisionist study, Doss chronicles a historic cultural change in American art from the dominance of regionalism in the 1930s to abstract expressionism in the 1940s. She centers her study on Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock, Benton's foremost student in t…
"In this acclaimed revisionist study, Doss chronicles a historic cultural change in American art from the dominance of regionalism in the 1930s to abstract expressionism in the 1940s. She centers her study on Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock, Benton's foremost student in t…
Maclagan shows that each of the marginal forms of drawing -- scribbling, doodling, and automatic drawing -- has its own history in spiritualism, surrealism, abstract expressionism, and psychedelic art and considers their new relationship to twenty-first-century digital culture
Avant-garde art between 1910 and 1950 is well known for its use of "primitive" imagery, often borrowed from traditional cultures in Africa and Oceania. Less recognized, however, is the use United States artists made of Native American art, myth, and ritual to craft a specificall…
American Artists on Art: from 1940 to 1980
by Kaprow, Allan, Cage, John, Wright, William, Anderson, Laurie, Pollock, Jackson, Gottlieb, Adolph, Newman, Barnett, De Kooning, Willem, Kline, Franz, Motherwell, Robert, Reinhardt, Ad, Smith, David, Nevelson, Louise, Noland, Kenneth, Olitski, Jules, Nemser, Cindy, Oldenburg, Claes, Lichtenstein, Roy, Judd, Donald, LeWitt, Sol, Bochner, Mel, Kosuth, Joseph, Irwin, Robert, Chase, Linda, Christo, Serra, Richard, Aycock, Alice, Burden, Chris, Johnson, Ellen