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Abstract Expressionism and the Cultural Logic of Romantic Anti-Capitalism: Dissent during the McCarthy Period (Cambridge Studies in American Visual Culture) [Hardcover]

David Craven (Author)

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Series: Cambridge Studies in American Visual Culture | Publication Date: February 13, 1999

Abstract Expressionism and the Cultural Logic of Romantic Anti-Capitalism examines the artistic aims of the New York School of painters within the context of left wing political discussions during the 1940s and 50s. By drawing on new primary material from contemporary art critics, including Meyer Schapiro and Marta Traba, David Craven addresses Abstract Expressionism as a response to the politics of the Cold War. Outlining the artistic intentions of New York School painters, Craven shows how Abstract Expressionism emerged as an implicit criticism of important mainstream ideas in the United States during the McCarthy era.

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Examines the aims of the New York School of painters within the context of left wing political discussions during the 1940s and 50s. Outlining the artistic intentions of New York School painters, Craven shows how Abstract Expressionism emerged as an implicit criticism of mainstream ideas in the US during McCarthyism.

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Hardcover: 248 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (February 13, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521434157
ISBN-13: 978-0521434157
Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.2 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
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WHEN IN THE 1950S SCHAPIRO ROSE TO THE DEFENSE OF THE New York School, he enjoyed extended personal interchange with virtually all of the major artists among the first-generation Abstract Expressionists. Read the first page

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mainstream myths, haunted fifties, abstract expressionism, pictorial logic, artists committee, avantgarde art, alternative modernism, instrumental thinking, anarchist views

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Abstract Expressionists, Abstract Expressionism, United States, New York School, Meyer Schapiro, Frankfurt School, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Harold Rosenberg, Elaine de Kooning, Communist Party, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Latin America, Monthly Review, Clement Greenberg, Lee Krasner, Norman Lewis, Soviet Union, New Deal, Third World, Adolph Gottlieb, Art News, Leo Lowenthal

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