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Title: Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics by Ann Eden Gibson ISBN: 0-300-08072-7 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Widening the lens of art history
Comment: Ann Eden Gibson's revelatory book takes a second look at American art history of the mid-to-late 20th century and makes a strong case for a reexamination of artists whose work has been excluded. The importance of artists such as Norman Lewis, Beauford Delany, Hale Woodruff, Charles Alston, Alice Trumbull Mason, Michael West and many others has been marginalized because they were African-American or women or gay or Asian-American. How and why this happened is the subject of Ms. Gibson's clear-eyed and well-reasoned analysis. She writes of social, philosophical, psychological and historical matters which combined to create this widespread rejection in the mainstream art world.
One interesting area of discussion, for example, was the natural ability and inclination of the Outsider to perceive aspects of life in more than one way. This plurality, with its inherent sense of irony and a wider perspective, was the antithesis of the Abstract Expressionists' determined formula for success - to find a style and stick to it. Another fertile subject is that of the Hero, or heroic rebel, as epitomized by Jackson Pollock and idolized by most of the artists within the fold. This uniquely masculine, heterosexual and yes, narrow point of view catapulted certain artists into the limelight and pushed others with a more feminine or delicate or vulnerable approach to the sidelines.
These and other arguments are all beautifully documented by Gibson, and a generous number of color, as well as black-and-white illustrations demonstrate the content and strength of the work of many of these unjustly neglected artists. This probing volume raises as many questions as it answers. Hopefully, this will be only the beginning of a much-needed reassessment of the history of recent American art.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must read; Dr. Gibson opens our eyes to so many overlooked
Comment: In Other Politics, Ann Gibson has made me rethink all of what I thought I knew about abstract expressionism. From the
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Title: Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s by Michael Leja ISBN: 0300070829 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience by Stephen Polcari ISBN: 0521448263 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 26 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $36.00 |
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Title: Pollock and After: The Critical Debate by Francis Frascina ISBN: 0415228670 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 31 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $31.95 |
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Title: Abstract Expressionism (World of Art) by David Anfam ISBN: 0500202435 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Tradition of the New by Harold Rosenberg ISBN: 0306805960 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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