The New York School

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í American art outgrew its long European apprenticeship in the years after the Second World War when the School of New York, as it came to be called, supplanted the Ecole de Paris as the centre of artistic infiovation. Virtually every important American artistto have emerged in the lastfifteen years looks to the achievement of American abstract expressionism as a point of departure, in the same way that most European artists of the 1920s and 1930§ referred in their work to the invention of Cubism. The first generation of painters of the New York School were those whose activity was centred in New York City after 1940 and who had achieved by 1950 a mature and distinctly individual style. This book is based on the catalogue which Maurice Tuchman prepared for an exhibition of paintings by the New York School held in 1965 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. it surveys the work of the fifteen artists commonly rejgarded as the creators in New York of. abstract expressionism - a group... Tovább

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í American art outgrew its long European apprenticeship in the years after the Second World War when the School of New York, as it came to be called, supplanted the Ecole de Paris as the centre of artistic infiovation. Virtually every important American artistto have emerged in the lastfifteen years looks to the achievement of American abstract expressionism as a point of departure, in the same way that most European artists of the 1920s and 1930§ referred in their work to the invention of Cubism. The first generation of painters of the New York School were those whose activity was centred in New York City after 1940 and who had achieved by 1950 a mature and distinctly individual style. This book is based on the catalogue which Maurice Tuchman prepared for an exhibition of paintings by the New York School held in 1965 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. it surveys the work of the fifteen artists commonly rejgarded as the creators in New York of. abstract expressionism - a group which includes Willem De Kooning, Ad Reinhardt, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko and Jackson Poílock. The works chosen for reproduction have been confined to tba 1940s and 1950s, focusing upon that body of work^ which marked such revolutionary advances during those years and which has generated so much inspiration, and reaction, since.' Statements and other writings by each of the artists are included as well as writings by American critics. The bibliography includes catalogues and reviews of group exhibitions, group statements, related writings and criticism, and individual bibliographies. ^ Vissza