Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism - From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism

In this acclaimed revisionist study, Doss chronicles a historic cultural change in American art from the dominance of regionalism in the 1930s to abstract expressionism in the 1940s. She centers her study on Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock, Benton's foremost student in the early thirties, charting Pollock's early imitation of Benton's style before his radical move to abstraction. By situating painting within the evolving sociopolitical and cultural context of the Depression and the Cold War, Doss explains the reasons for this change and casts light on its significance for contemporary culture.

Product details

• Authors: Erika Doss, Doss Erika
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1995
• EAN: 9780226159430
• ISBN: 978-0-226-15943-0
• No. of pages: 462
• Dimensions: 15 mm x 23 mm x 3 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Painting & paintings, Paintings and painting