Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being"The year 1940 marks a defining moment in 20th-century art, when many artists of the European avant-garde moved en masse to New York. The city was instantly transformed into the art capital of the world, triggering radical changes of direction as artists, both immigrant and American-born, struggled with the reshuffled facts of their existence. For these artists, says Fineberg, making art was - as it continues to be for artists today - a strategy of coming to terms with their moment in history.". |
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... abstract expressionism of 1910 to 1914 , Mondrian , Picasso's Guernica , interwar cubism , and abstract surrealism . From cubism they took the shallow picture space and the concern with the picture plane . The biomorphic forms and ...
... abstract expressionism of 1910 to 1914 , Mondrian , Picasso's Guernica , interwar cubism , and abstract surrealism . From cubism they took the shallow picture space and the concern with the picture plane . The biomorphic forms and ...
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... abstract expressionism . His friend Walter Darby Bannard explained : Abstract expressionism was repudiated point by point : painting within the drawing replaced drawing with paint ; overt regularity replaced apparent randomness ...
... abstract expressionism . His friend Walter Darby Bannard explained : Abstract expressionism was repudiated point by point : painting within the drawing replaced drawing with paint ; overt regularity replaced apparent randomness ...
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... Art Through 1946 , Ph.D. diss . , University of Pennsylvania , 1977 . 10. See W. Jackson Rushing , " Ritual and Myth : Native American Culture and Abstract Expressionism , " in Maurice Tuchman and Judi Freeman , eds . , The Spiritual In Art ...
... Art Through 1946 , Ph.D. diss . , University of Pennsylvania , 1977 . 10. See W. Jackson Rushing , " Ritual and Myth : Native American Culture and Abstract Expressionism , " in Maurice Tuchman and Judi Freeman , eds . , The Spiritual In Art ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 11 |
New York in the Forties | 20 |
The Sense of a New Movement in New York | 31 |
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