New York School - A Cultural Reckoning

As the Washington Post says, "Dore Ashton brings the reader to the very core of Mark Rothko's art." She draws on her countless interviews with the artist--giving little credence to the false mythology surrounding his work--to take us to the heart of Rothko's painting, showing its derivation from his reading, travel, and thought.

List of contents

Author's note                     
  List of Illustrations                
  Introduction
  Greenwich Village—and Depression      
z 'Hell, it's not just about painting!'
3 Artists and the New Deal              
4 A Farrago of Theories                
5 Studio Talk                           
6 The advent of Surrealism              
7 Voices from Europe                    
8 Myth and Metamorphosis               
9 American culture or mass culture?    
io Abstract Expressionism              
II Artists and Dealers                 
12 Existentialism                      
13 The Eighth-street Club              
14 'Instantaneous tradition'           
15 The end of an era                   
  Afterword                            
  References                           
  Index             

About the author

Dore Ashton is Professor of Art History at The Cooper Union, New York, and the author of many books on modern art.

Summary

With the emergence of Abstract Expressionism after World War II, the attention of the international art world turned from Paris to New York. In this book, Dore Ashton captures the vitality of the cultural milieu in which the New York School artists worked and argued from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Product details

• Authors: Dore Ashton, ASHTON DORE
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1992
• EAN: 9780520081062
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08106-2
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; USA, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / American / General, History of Art, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Abstract Expressionism, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Art & Design Styles: Abstract Expressionism