Abstract expressionism and the modern experience - Stephen Polcari

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Title
Abstract expressionism and the modern experience
Author
Stephen Polcari
format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
English
UK Publication Date
19930326

A major revisionist study of the art and artists who participated in what is now regarded as the first American style of international consequence. Based on examinations of new archival material and many unknown paintings, this study relates Abstract Expressionism to the actual historical circumstances, as well as intellectual and cultural milieu, of America from the 1930s to the 1950s. Stephen Polcari reverses the traditional perspective of Abstract Expressionism as an abstract art inspired by issues of the postwar period. Examining its roots in the art of the 1930s and 1940s, he contends that Abstract Expressionism emerges as a public art that actively engaged in the social, economic, and political crises of the 1930s, and, more significantly, the experience of World War II. Polcari provides an account of the contemporary artistic, intellectual and cultural history to establish a macro-history of human beings under the pressures of war, fear, torment, and hope. Within this context, he convincingly presents Abstract Expressionism as a mode of modern, metaphysical 'history' painting that uses the forms and devices of modern art to come to terms with the brutality of contemporary history.

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Type
BOOK
Keyword Index
Abstract expressionism - United States.|Painting, Modern - 20th century - United States.
Country of Publication
England
Number of Pages
408

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