Abstract Expressionism at The Museum of Modern Art: Selections from the Collection - Couverture rigide

Temkin, Ann

 
9780870707933: Abstract Expressionism at The Museum of Modern Art: Selections from the Collection
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0870707930 ISBN 13 : 9780870707933
Editeur : Museum of Modern Art, 2010

Synopsis

More than sixty years have passed since the critic Robert Coates, writing in The NewYorker in 1946, first used the term'Abstract Expressionism' to describe the richly coloured canvases of Hans Hofmann. The name stuck, and over the years it has come to designate the paintings and sculptures of artists as different as Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman,Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, Lee Krasner and David Smith. The achievements of this generation, which put NewYork City on the map as the centre of the international art world, are some of the 20th century's greatest masterpieces. Beginning in mid-1940s, under the aegis of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., works by then little-known American artists - including Pollock, de Kooning, Smith, Arshile Gorky and Adolph Gottlieb - began to enter the Museum's collection. These ambitious acquisition initiatives continued throughout the second half of the last century and produced a collection of Abstract Expressionist art with a breadth and depth unrivalled by any museum in the world.With an essay by Ann Temkin, Abstract Expressionism at The Museum of Modern Art celebrates the Museum's holdings from this epochal moment in the history of art and the institution like no other book.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ann Temkin is The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

More than sixty years have passed since the critic Robert Coates, writing in The NewYorker in 1946, first used the term'Abstract Expressionism' to describe the richly coloured canvases of Hans Hofmann. The name stuck, and over the years it has come to designate the paintings and sculptures of artists as different as Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman,Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, Lee Krasner and David Smith. The achievements of this generation, which put NewYork City on the map as the centre of the international art world, are some of the 20th century's greatest masterpieces. Beginning in mid-1940s, under the aegis of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., works by then little-known American artists - including Pollock, de Kooning, Smith, Arshile Gorky and Adolph Gottlieb - began to enter the Museum's collection. These ambitious acquisition initiatives continued throughout the second half of the last century and produced a collection of Abstract Expressionist art with a breadth and depth unrivalled by any museum in the world.With an essay by Ann Temkin, Abstract Expressionism at The Museum of Modern Art celebrates the Museum's holdings from this epochal moment in the history of art and the institution like no other book.

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Éditeur
Museum of Modern Art
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0870707930
ISBN 13 
9780870707933
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
128
Coordonnées du fabricant
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