Synopses & Reviews
o Invaluable for students in schools and colleges o Publication accompanies the inaugural exhibition at the new Frost Collection, (Florida International University, Miami) of works from the SAAM, the first of a 10 venue national tour o Shows why the New York art scene became so important following the Second World War, and features works by 30 artists including Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Grace Hartigan, Robert Motherwell, Romare Bearden, Richard Diebenkorn, Jim Dine, Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Larry Rivers and Theodore Roszak Published to accompany the inaugural exhibition of works from the Smithsonian American Art Museum at the new Frost Art Collection, Florida International University, this highly illustrated new book looks at the rise to prominence of New York as the center of the modern art scene in the two decades following the Second World War. Some 30 major artists are featured, including Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Grace Hartigan, Robert Motherwell, Romare Bearden, Richard Diebenkorn, Jim Dine, Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Larry Rivers and Theodore Roszak. This volume draws heavily on contemporary photographs, magazine and newspaper articles, diaries and personal recollections, to bring to life the works of art, the artists who created them, the studios that exhibited them and the public's reaction to them. In doing this the author shows how important the media and individual gallery owners were in developing art movements like Abstract Expressionism, and how this in turn would develop into Pop Art and beyond.
Synopsis
Publication accompanies the inaugural exhibition at the new Frost Collection, Florida, which looks at the rise to prominence of the New York art scene in the two decades following the Second World War
Synopsis
Looks at the rise to prominence of New York as the center of the modern art scene after 1945
Synopsis
This brand new volume presents, in stunning color, over seventy postwar artworks from the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and looks at the rise to prominence of New York as the center of the modern art scene in the two decades following World War II.
About the Author
Virginia M. Mecklenburg is senior curator, painting and sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum. She is co-author of Edward Hopper: The Watercolors(1999), and co-author of Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and their New York(1996)