Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics

by Gibson, Ann Eden

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New Haven, CT, U.S.A: Yale University Press, 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8 1/4" X 10 1/4. The Abstract Expressionist movement has long been bound up with the careers of about a dozen white male artists who exhibited in New York in the 1940s; in this book the author reconsiders the history of the movement by investigating other artists, including people of color, women, and gays and lesbians, whose versions of abstraction have been largely ignored; she argues that the origins and promotion of Abstract Expressionism were influenced by sexual and racial biases, and shows how both the themes and physical appearance of the art were gradually defined and refined by white male artists, their critics, and their supporters; includes many black & white and color illustrations (black cloth with gold lettering; pictorial dust jacket with detail from painting by Harlan Jackson)

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