Signifying Art - Essays on Art After 1960

Klappentext A study of the work of a generation of 'respondents' to the New York School. Zusammenfassung This book! first published in 1999! studies the work of a generation of 'respondents' to the New York School! including Robert Rauschenberg! Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly! who reintroduced pictorialism and verbal content in their paintings and assemblages. Welish offers a reevaluation of the major trends and production of post-war American painting. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Narrating the Hand: 1. Pail for Ganymede: Rauschenberg's sculpture; 2. Texas, Japan, etc.: Rauschenberg's sense of place; 3. The art of Cy Twombly; 4. The art of being sparse, porous, scattered; 5. Narrating the hand: Cy Twombly and Mary Kelly; 6. When is a door not a door?; 7. Frame of mind: interpreting Jasper Johns; 8. Jasper's patterns; 9. The specter of art hype and the ghost of Yves Klein; Part II. Expressionism and Other Expressivites: 10. Harold Rosenberg: transforming the earth; 11. The art of Philip Guston; 12. Gestural aftermath; 13. Contesting leisure: Alex Katz and Eric Fischl; Part III. Ideas of Order: 14. Indeterminacy meets encyclopedia: the art of Kestutis Zapkus; 15. A Greenberg retrospective; 16. Abstractions: Barnett Newman and James Turrell; 17. Literature of silence (Nancy Haynes); 18. Boulders from Flatland: the drawings of Jene Highstein; 19. Box, aspects of (Donald Judd); 20. Quality through quantity; 21. Maquettes and models: Siah Armajani and Hannes Bruner; 22. Ideas of order (Sol Le Witt); 23. Contextualizing 'The Open Work'.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Welish Marjorie, Marjorie Welish, Marjorie (Pratt Institute Welish, Welish Marjorie
• Con la collaborazione di: Donald Kuspit (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.09.1999
• EAN: 9780521633017
• ISBN: 978-0-521-63301-7
• Pagine: 336
• Serie: Contemporary Artists and Their; Contemporary Artists and Their; Contemporary Artists and their Critics
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Antiquariato; 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