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Abstract expressionism : a critical record / [edited by] David Shapiro and Cecile Shapiro.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.Description: xiv, 442 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0521367336 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • N6512.5.A25 A25 1990
Partial contents:
Introduction : a brief history / David Shapiro and Cecile Shapiro --Concerning the beginnings of the New York School, 1939-1943 : interviewwith Robert Motherwell / Sidney Simon -- "Everyone knew what everyone else meant" / Robert Goldwater -- The club / Irving Sandler --Towards a newer Laocoon / Clement Greenberg -- The American action painters / Harold Rosenberg -- A critique of abstract expressionism / Leon Golub -- The new American painting / Alfred H. Barr, Jr. --Narcissus in chaos : contemporary American art / Cleve Gray -- Happy new year : thoughts on critics and certain painters as the season opens / John Canaday -- Reflections on the New York School / Robert Goldwater -- The critical reception of abstract-expressionism / Max Kozloff.
Re-evaluating abstract expressionism / Gregory Battcock -- Residual sign systems in abstract expressionism / Lawrence Alloway -- American painting since the last war / Peter Fuller -- Abstract expressionism : the social contract / Donald B. Kuspit -- Abstract expressionism's evasion of language / Ann Gibson -- What abstract art means to me / Willem de Koonig -- De Kooning's women : interview with Willem de Kooning / David Sylvester -- Review of an exhibition of Willem de Kooning / Clement Greenberg -- Willem de Kooning / Dore Ashton --Willem de Kooning / Lawrence Alloway -- Interview with Willem de Kooning / Harold Rosenberg -- De Kooning of East Hampton / Hilton Kramer -- My painting / Adolph Gottlieb -- Adolph Gottlieb : an interview / David Sylvester -- Adolph Gottlieb / Barnett B. Newman.
Adolph Gottlieb / Fairfield Porter -- Adolph Gottlieb / Clement Greenberg -- Adolph Gottlieb and abstract painting / Lawrence Alloway --Franz Kline retrospective exhibition : introduction / Frank O'Hara --Art chronicle : feeling is all (Kline) / Clement Greenberg -- Franz Kline / Dore Ashton -- Franz Kline : painter of his own life / Elaine de Kooning -- Kline's estate / Lawrence Alloway -- Kline's "effulgent abstractions" / John Russell -- The sublime is now / Barnett B. Newman -- Barnett Newman at the Parsons Gallery / Thomas B. Hess -- Art chronicle : feeling is all (Newman) / Clement Greenberg -- The philosophic line of B. Newman / E.C. Goossen -- Barnett Newman : The stations of the cross and the subjects of the artist / Lawrence Alloway -- Newman : meaning in abstract art, II / Harold Rosenberg -- My painting / Jackson Pollock -- An interview with Jackson Pollock / William Wright.
Art Chronicle : Jackson Pollock / Clement Greenberg -- Jackson Pollock at art of this century -- Jackson Pollock : the infinite labyrinth / Parker Tyler -- The month in review : Jackson Pollock / Hilton Kramer -- De Kooning on Pollock : an interview / James T. Valliere -- The mythic act / Harold Rosenberg -- To interpret or not to interpret Jackson Pollock / Donald B. Kuspit -- The romantics were prompted / Mark Rothko -- Mark Rothko at art of this century -- Art : Mark Rothko / Dore Ashton -- The new New York scene / Anita Brookner --Mark Rothko's new retrospective / Max Kozloff -- Rothko / Harold Rosenberg -- Mark Rothko / Robert Carleton Hobbs.
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Bibliography: p. 423-433.

Includes index.

Introduction : a brief history / David Shapiro and Cecile Shapiro --Concerning the beginnings of the New York School, 1939-1943 : interviewwith Robert Motherwell / Sidney Simon -- "Everyone knew what everyone else meant" / Robert Goldwater -- The club / Irving Sandler --Towards a newer Laocoon / Clement Greenberg -- The American action painters / Harold Rosenberg -- A critique of abstract expressionism / Leon Golub -- The new American painting / Alfred H. Barr, Jr. --Narcissus in chaos : contemporary American art / Cleve Gray -- Happy new year : thoughts on critics and certain painters as the season opens / John Canaday -- Reflections on the New York School / Robert Goldwater -- The critical reception of abstract-expressionism / Max Kozloff.

Re-evaluating abstract expressionism / Gregory Battcock -- Residual sign systems in abstract expressionism / Lawrence Alloway -- American painting since the last war / Peter Fuller -- Abstract expressionism : the social contract / Donald B. Kuspit -- Abstract expressionism's evasion of language / Ann Gibson -- What abstract art means to me / Willem de Koonig -- De Kooning's women : interview with Willem de Kooning / David Sylvester -- Review of an exhibition of Willem de Kooning / Clement Greenberg -- Willem de Kooning / Dore Ashton --Willem de Kooning / Lawrence Alloway -- Interview with Willem de Kooning / Harold Rosenberg -- De Kooning of East Hampton / Hilton Kramer -- My painting / Adolph Gottlieb -- Adolph Gottlieb : an interview / David Sylvester -- Adolph Gottlieb / Barnett B. Newman.

Adolph Gottlieb / Fairfield Porter -- Adolph Gottlieb / Clement Greenberg -- Adolph Gottlieb and abstract painting / Lawrence Alloway --Franz Kline retrospective exhibition : introduction / Frank O'Hara --Art chronicle : feeling is all (Kline) / Clement Greenberg -- Franz Kline / Dore Ashton -- Franz Kline : painter of his own life / Elaine de Kooning -- Kline's estate / Lawrence Alloway -- Kline's "effulgent abstractions" / John Russell -- The sublime is now / Barnett B. Newman -- Barnett Newman at the Parsons Gallery / Thomas B. Hess -- Art chronicle : feeling is all (Newman) / Clement Greenberg -- The philosophic line of B. Newman / E.C. Goossen -- Barnett Newman : The stations of the cross and the subjects of the artist / Lawrence Alloway -- Newman : meaning in abstract art, II / Harold Rosenberg -- My painting / Jackson Pollock -- An interview with Jackson Pollock / William Wright.

Art Chronicle : Jackson Pollock / Clement Greenberg -- Jackson Pollock at art of this century -- Jackson Pollock : the infinite labyrinth / Parker Tyler -- The month in review : Jackson Pollock / Hilton Kramer -- De Kooning on Pollock : an interview / James T. Valliere -- The mythic act / Harold Rosenberg -- To interpret or not to interpret Jackson Pollock / Donald B. Kuspit -- The romantics were prompted / Mark Rothko -- Mark Rothko at art of this century -- Art : Mark Rothko / Dore Ashton -- The new New York scene / Anita Brookner --Mark Rothko's new retrospective / Max Kozloff -- Rothko / Harold Rosenberg -- Mark Rothko / Robert Carleton Hobbs.

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