Reframing abstract expressionism : subjectivity and painting in the 1940s
- Author
- Leja, Michael
- Document type
- Livre
- Language
English
- Source
- 92 ill.; bibliogr.; index ; viii, 392 p. ; 1993
- ISBN
- 0-300-04461-5
- Publisher
- Yale University Press, New Haven (usa)
- Publication country
- United States
- Abstract (en)
- Argues that the interest of the leading abstract expressionist artists (Pollock, Rothko, Newman, De Kooning) in tapping primitive and unconscious components of self aligns them with many contemporary essayists, Hollywood filmmakers, journalists, and popular philosophers who were turning, like the artists, to psychology, anthropology, and philosophy in the effort to reformulate individual identity. Taking Pollock's paintings and their reception as a case study, shows that critics located in Pollock's abstract forms a web of metaphors that situated the paintings in mainstream cultural discourses on the individual's sense of self and identity. Asserts that abstract expressionism effectively enacted and represented the new, conflicted, layered subjectivity, a feature that helps to account for the support and interest it garnered from cultural and political institutions alike.
- Subject (en)
- Subject (fr)
- Origin
DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)
Identifier19940701-00343484
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