Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War:

Since the 1970s, it has been argued that Abstract Expressionism was exhibited abroad by the post-war US establishment in an attempt to culturally match and reinforce its newfound economic and military dominance. The account of Abstract Expressionism developed by the American critic Clement Greenberg...

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1. Verfasser: Neofetou, Daniel (VerfasserIn)
Format: Abschlussarbeit Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; London ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2022
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Zusammenfassung:Since the 1970s, it has been argued that Abstract Expressionism was exhibited abroad by the post-war US establishment in an attempt to culturally match and reinforce its newfound economic and military dominance. The account of Abstract Expressionism developed by the American critic Clement Greenberg is often identified as central to these efforts. However, this book rereads Greenberg's account through Theodor Adorno and Maurice Merleau-Ponty in order to contend that Greenberg's criticism in fact testifies to how Abstract Expressionism opposes the ends to which it was deployed. With reference not only to the most famous artists of the movement, but also female artists and artists of colour whom Greenberg himself neglected, such as Joan Mitchell and Norman Lewis, it is argued that, far from reinforcing the capitalist status quo, Abstract Expressionism engages corporeal and affective elements of experience dismissed or delegitimated by capitalism, and promises a world that would do justice to them
Beschreibung:Hervorgegangen aus der PhD Thesis mit dem Titel: "Eyes in the Heat: The Question Concerning Abstract Expressionism" (Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2018)
Beschreibung:viii, 227 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:9781501358388
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