Art in America 1945-1970 (LOA #259): Writings from the Age of

Art in America 1945-1970 (LOA #259): Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism (Library of America)

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, â€œthere has never been a period when the visual arts have been written about with more mongrel energyâ€”with more unexpected mixtures of reportage, rhapsody, analysis, advocacy, editorializing, and philosophy.â€ 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.
Country USA
Brand Library of America
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 82
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2014-10-09
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781598533101

Country	USA
Brand	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	82
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2014-10-09
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781598533101

Art in America 1945-1970 (LOA #259): Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism (Library of America)

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