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Where do we begin to talk about abstract art? From the point of view of the collection included in this book, the arc of abstraction is very broad, sweeping and multivalent. The essays included here take an open view of the story of abstraction, reflecting the variation and diversity of American art included in the holdings of the Newark Museum.
List of contents
CONTENTS
Foreword
Ulysses Grant Dietz
Acknowledgments
The Arc of Abstraction
Tricia Laughlin Bloom
Dove, O’Keeffe, Stella, Russell, Calder: On Nature and Abstraction
Donald Kuspit
COLOR
Experiencing Color Field Art
Gabriel Dawe
FOUND OBJECTS
Edward Steichen’s Carpet Tacks
Jalena Louise Jampolsky
BEFORE ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
The American Abstract Artists Group
Marela Zacarias
THE GESTURE
Norman Lewis’s Untitled, 1953
Tarin Fuller
MUSIC
The Music of Abstraction
William L. Coleman
MATERIAL EXPRESSIONS
Simply Beautiful: Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Monument to Malcolm X, II
Souleo
THE BIOMORPH
Signs of Life in Abstract Art
Edited by Tricia Laughlin Bloom
BEYOND MINIMALISM
About Lifeless, Deathless, Endless—Ad Reinhardt
Kay WalkingStick
About the author
Tricia Laughlin Bloom is Curator of American Art at the Newark Museum, a position she has held since 2015. She is the curator and project director for Seeing America, the reinstallation of the Museum’s modern and contemporary galleries. Previously Bloom was Associate Curator of Exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum.
Donald Kuspit, an art critic and poet, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of art history and philosophy at SUNY Stony Brook and a former professor of art history at the School of Visual Arts, New York. He is the author of Psychodrama: Modern Art as Group Therapy (2010) and The End of Art (2005), among many other books.
Summary
Where do we begin to talk about abstract art? From the point of view of the collection included in this book, the arc of abstraction is very broad, sweeping and multivalent. The essays included here take an open view of the story of abstraction, reflecting the variation and diversity of American art included in the holdings of the Newark Museum.
