Killing Men & Dying Women - Imagining Difference in 1950s New York Painting

Informationen zum Autor Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at the University of Leeds. Klappentext This book explores how theories of embodiment, the gesture, hysteria and subjectivity can deepen our understanding of New York abstract painting. Providing readings of paintings by Krasner and examining images of Pollock and Frankenthaler at work, it builds a bridge between the New York artist-women and their other, Marilyn Monroe. Zusammenfassung This book explores how theories of embodiment, the gesture, hysteria and subjectivity can deepen our understanding of New York abstract painting. Providing readings of paintings by Krasner and examining images of Pollock and Frankenthaler at work, it builds a bridge between the New York artist-women and their other, Marilyn Monroe. -- .

About the author

Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at the University of Leeds.

Product details

• Authors: Griselda Pollock
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781526164179
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-6417-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; New York, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / American / General, ART / Women Artists, History of Art, Individual artists, art monographs, Human figures depicted in art, Art & Design Styles: Abstract Expressionism