"The Abstract Expressionist movement has long been bound up in the careers and lifestyles of about twelve white male artists who exhibited in New York in the 1940s. In this book Ann Eden Gibson reconsiders the history of the movement by investigating other artists, people of color, women, and g...

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Main Author:	Gibson, Ann Eden 1944- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven Yale University Press 1999
Subjects:	1900-1999 Abstract expressionism Art, American Artists / Psychology Gender identity Minorities in art Abstract expressionism / United States Art, American / 20th century Artists / United States / Psychology Gender identity / United States
Online Access:	DE-255 Volltext
Summary:	"The Abstract Expressionist movement has long been bound up in the careers and lifestyles of about twelve white male artists who exhibited in New York in the 1940s. In this book Ann Eden Gibson reconsiders the history of the movement by investigating other artists, people of color, women, and gays and lesbians, whose versions of abstraction have been largely ignored until now. Gibson argues that the origins and promotion of Abstract Expressionism were influenced by sexual and racial biases, and she shows how both the themes and physical appearance of Abstract Expressionism were gradually defined and refined by the white male artists who became its spokesmen, by critics, and by private and institutional supporters. She offers a justification for rethinking the definition of Abstract Expressionism through the work of such well-known contemporaries as Romare Bearden, Louise Bourgeois, Lee Krasner, Norman Lewis, Alfonso Ossorio, Aaron Siskind, Leon Polk Smith, Anne Ryan, and Hale Woodruff, as well as such lesser known artists as Ruth Abrams, Ronald Joseph, and Thelma Johnson Streat. Gibson contends that the current description of Abstract Expressionism has not only deprived it of such themes as masking, maternity, domesticity, and the experience of African American and Native American culture but has also limited it formally by excluding smaller, representational, and more personal work by canonical as well as noncanonical artists. She demonstrates that exposing the movement's true diversity makes this important heritage even more valuable than it was before"--Publisher's description
Item Description:	Originally published: 1997
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (352 Seiten) 191 Illustrationen (some color)
ISBN:	0300229011 9780300229011
DOI:	10.37862/aaeportal.00006