Abstract Expressionism

A tragic icon of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912 1956) took influences from Picasso and Mexican surrealism and developed his own way ...

Reducere. A long-awaited survey of female Abstract Expressionist artists revealing the richness and lasting influence of their work The artists Jay DeFeo, He...

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This is an innovative, practical guide to drawing and painting dynamic abstract art. It explains the techniques needed for creative expressionism t...

Amongst the pioneering exponents of Californian Abstract Expressionism was Frank Lobdell (b. 1921)--peer to painters such as Clyfford Still, Mark R...

Reducere. Generously includes film stills and essays on crime films, The Postman Always Rings Twice, "Hitchcock's Noir Landscape " "Samuel Fuller's Tabloid C...

In this concise account, David Anfam examines the movement in terms of its political implications and cultural context, taking into account a wealt...

Expressionism in Philosophy is both a pivotal reading of Spinoza's work and also a crucial text within the development of Deleuze's own thought. It...

An interpretation of the political and cultural history of the early cold war years. The author argues that art is part of the general culture, not...

Celebrating the career of one of the most distinguished artists to emerge from postwar British art schools, this publication is the first of its ki...

DescriptionThe first comprehensive publication exploring the life and art of pioneering American abstract artist Alice Trumbull Mason is perfect fo...

Over 1, 900 entries provide succinct and accessible explanations of a variety of terms used in art, covering materials, techniques, styles, and per...

This book offers the most detailed investigation thus far of the materials and methods of this key American Abstract Expressionist artist.Publisher...

Reducere. Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Barnett Newman (1905-1970) and Dan Flavin (1933-1996) belong to very different generations, but they have in common a ri...

Willem de Kooning is the old master of Abstract Expressionism, whose ferocious women and seemingly spontaneous brushwork have been primary influenc...

Reducere. DescriptionThe artistic work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) is considered a milestone of international modernism and the climax of German Exp...

Revised and redesigned for the first time since 2001, this standard introduction to visual art in the postwar era examines the movements, trends, a...

Reducere. A sweeping retrospective exploring the oeuvre of an incandescent artist, revealing the ways that Mitchell expanded painting beyond Abstract Express...

Reducere. This first-ever biography of American painter Grace Hartigan traces her rise from virtually self-taught painter to art-world fame, her plunge into ...

DescriptionSince the mid-1970s, American painter Stanley Whitney has been exploring the formal possibilities of color within grids of multi-colored...

Reducere. This book explores the portraiture of Elaine de Kooning, an enormously talented artist whose widely admired body of work--both abstract and figurat...

DescriptionThis generously illustrated volume is the first comprehensive publication devoted to the powerfully expressive work of David Park (1911-...

Philip Guston remains a pivotal figure in the history of twentieth-century American painting. Written by Musa Meyer--Guston's daughter and presiden...

This is the premier collection of dialogues, talks, and writings by Philip Guston (19131980), one of the most intellectually adventurous and poetic...

In Robert Motherwell: The Making of an American Giant, published to coincide with Motherwell's centenary, author Bernard Jacobson examines Motherwe...

Reducere. The early 1950s, when Robert Rauschenberg launched his career, was the heyday of the heroic gestural painting of Abstract Expressionism. Rauschenbe...

A guidebook to the wild world of communist minimalism in Tito's YugoslaviaSpomenik--the Serbo-Croat/Slovenian word for monument--refers to the memo...

Reducere. from unincorporated territory hacha] is the first book of native Chamorro poet Craig Santos Perez's ongoing series about his homeland, the Western ...

Garo Z. Antreasian (b. 1922) belongs to the great generation of innovators in mid-twentieth-century American art. While influenced by a variety of ...

The first truly comprehensive analysis of the history, practice, and conservation of painting on canvas. Throughout its long history in Western art,...

In 1984, Lee Krasner (1908-1984) became one of the few women artists to have been given a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She ...

Reducere. Dream Dance: The Art of Ed Emshwiller is a catalog released in conjunction with the artist's first major monographic exhibition at Lightbox Film Ce...

Deborah Solomon's definitive biography of Joseph Cornell, one of America's most moving and unusual twentieth-century artists, now reissued twenty y...

Reducere. Cradle of Magic brings together two giants of 20th-century British painting: John Bellany and Alan Davie Alan Davie (1920-2014) was one of the firs...

Reducere. Peggy Guggenheim -- millionairess, legendary lover, sadomasochist, appalling parent, selective miser -- was one of the greatest and most notorious ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Christopher Rothko"The journey to understand the painting is also the journey to understand Rothko, because the work is so ...

DescriptionMost die-hard Brazilian music fans would argue that Getz/Gilberto, the iconic 1964 album featuring "The Girl from Ipanema, " is not the ...

DescriptionDe America is a series of some fifty paintings on paper and canvas created by Emilio Vedova in Venice between 1976 and 1977, subject of ...

Reducere. DescriptionArmajani unites art and architecture, Persian calligraphy and abstract expressionism, American vernacular architecture and Russian const...

Jackson Pollock, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel, and Laurie Anderson are just some of the major American artists of the twentieth c...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tina DickeyHans Hofmann (1880-1966), renowned painter and master teacher, clarified perennial issues in painting, through h...

DescriptionAmerican artist Sam Francis (1923-1994) brought vivid color and emotional intensity to Abstract Expressionism. He was described as the "...

DescriptionThey said only men could paint powerful pictures, but Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) splashed her way through the modern art world. Cha...

DescriptionThis new, thoroughly updated edition of Bradt's Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly remains the only dedicated guide to this perennially po...

DescriptionAn authoritative and comprehensive survey of the life and work of the visionary and influential painter Philip Guston. Driven and consum...

Surveying the American artist's multimedia works on paper from 1964 to the presentAmerican artist Louise Fishman's (born 1939) physical and process...

Reducere. During the 1950s a few painters in the San Francisco Bay Area began to stage personal, dramatic defections from the prevailing style of Abstract Ex...

A first look at the recently restored Rothko Chapel, a world-renowned destination for spiritual renewal, with all-new photography and scholarship o...

How do students develop a personal style from their instruction in a visual arts program? Women Artists on the Leading Edge explores this question ...

The Italian-American artist Francesco Clemente is one of the leading representatives of the postmodern Transavantgarde movement and Arte Cifra, the...

Reducere. "Friedman has captured the excitement of the artist at work--the tortuous groping towards an idea and the sense of fulfillment in its ultimate crea...

Reducere. At the time of Mark Rothko's apparent suicide in 1970, the deeply troubled, pioneering artist of Abstract Expressionism was at the height of fame a...

The first book to explore the extraordinary musical life and remarkable paintings of one of America's greatest ever songwriters. Best known for hav...

Drawing extensively upon the poet's unpublished manuscripts-poems, journals, essays, and letters-as well as all his published works, Marjorie Perlo...

Reducere. As they paint together on the Bavarian mountainside, young Gabriele (Ella) Münter falls in love with her married teacher, Wassily Kandinsky. While ...

Reducere. This expansive catalogue illuminates the social and cultural roots--and global importance--of iconic Filipino American artist and educator Carlos V...

Liza Baker, a rising star in the burgeoning Abstract Expressionist era, finds herself sidelined when she gets pregnant, and decides to have the chi...

Reducere. Wayne Thiebaud: 1958-1968 examines Thiebaud's ongoing impact on contemporary art through in-depth analysis of the paintings and drawings made at th...

Agnes Martin was born on the Canadian prairies in the early twentieth century. In this imagining of her childhood from acclaimed author Tessa McWat...

A landmark work of cultural history that tells the story of how four young poets, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch, rei...