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Art in America, 1945-1970 : writings from the age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism

An invigorating panorama of art writing from a crucial quarter century, adding vital context with incisive commentaries.

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  • "An invigorating panorama of art writing from a crucial quarter century, adding vital context with incisive commentaries."@en
  • "An invigorating panorama of art writing from a crucial quarter century, adding vital context with incisive commentaries."
  • "Experience the creative explosion that transformed American art, in the words of the artists, writers, and critics who were there: In the quarter century after the end of World War II, a new generation of painters, sculptors, and photographers transformed the face of American art and shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York. Signaled by the triumph of abstraction and the ascendancy of painters such as Pollock, Rothko, de Kooning, and Kline, this revolution generated an exuberant and contentious body of writing without parallel in our cultural history. In the words of editor Jed Perl, "there has never been a period when the visual arts have been written about with more mongrel energy'with more unexpected mixtures of reportage, rhapsody, analysis, advocacy, editorializing, and philosophy." Perl has gathered the best of this writing together for the first time, interwoven with fascinating headnotes that establish the historical background, the outsized personalities of the artists and critics, and the nature of the aesthetic battles that defined the era. Here are statements by the most significant artists, and major critical essays by Clement Greenberg, Susan Sontag, Hilton Kramer, and other influential figures. Here too is an electrifying array of responses by poets and novelists, reflecting the free interplay between different art forms: John Ashbery on Andy Warhol, James Agee on Helen Levitt, James Baldwin on Beauford Delaney, Truman Capote on Richard Avedon, Tennessee Williams on Hans Hofmann, Jack Kerouac on Robert Frank. The atmosphere of the time comes to vivid life in memoirs, diaries, and journalism by Peggy Guggenheim, Dwight Macdonald, Calvin Tomkins, and others. Lavishly illustrated with scores of black-and-white images and a 32-page color insert, this is a book that every art lover will treasure."@en

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  • "Art in America, 1945-1970 : writings from the age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism"@en
  • "Art in America : 1945 - 1970 ; writings from the age of abstract expressionism, pop art, and minimalism"
  • "Art in America, 1945-1970 : writings from the age of abstract expressionism, pop art and minimalism"
  • "Art in America, 1945-1970 : writings from the age of abstract expressionism, pop art, and minimalism"@en
  • "Art in America, 1945-1970 : writings from the age of abstract expressionism, pop art, and minimalism"
  • "Art in America 1945 - 1970 : writings from the age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism"
  • "Art in America 1945-1970 : writings from the age of abstract expressionism, pop art and minimalism"

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