Graham, Gorky, de Kooning and the "Ingres Revival" in America

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: Abstract Expressionism: Changing Methodologies for Interpreting Meaning 1
5. The 1940s: Mythologizing the Movement
6. Excerpt from Letter to His Sister Vartoosh, 1942 125
7. Excerpt from "Art in New York" 125
8. Excerpts from "The Modern Painter's World" 129
9. A Questionnaire 132
10. Thesis, 1946 133
11. Application for a Guggenheim Fellowship 135
12. The Ideographic Picture 135
13. The Sublime Is Now 137
14. My Painting 139
15. The Romantics Were Prompted 140
16. Excerpts from System and Dialectics of Art 142
17. Excerpt from "The Realm of Art: A New Platform; 'Globalism' Pops into View" 146
18. Excerpt from "Whither Goes Abstract and Surrealist Art?" 150
19. A Problem for Critics 152
20. Editorial Preface 153
21. The Intrasubjectives 154
22. The 1950s ESTABLISHING AUTHORITY
23. Excerpts from Artists'Sessions at Studio 35 159
24. David Smith Makes a Sculpture 165
25. Statement 171
26. de Kooning Paints a Picture 172
27. Artist's Statement 180
28. The Legacy of Jackson Pollock 181
29. In the Galleries: Franz Kline 188
30. The American Action Painters 189
31. "American-Type" Painting 198
32. Excerpt from "The Liberating Quality of Avant-Garde Art" 215
33. International Reaction to Alfred H. Barr Jr., 'The New American Painting" 220
34. The 1960s: Consolidating the Canon
35. The Unwanted Title: Abstract Expressionism 229
36. We Interview Lee Krasner 236
37. The Abstract Sublime 239
38. Excerpt from American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists 245
39. The Biomorphic '40s 250
40. Jackson Pollock 256
41. Concerning the Beginnings of the New York School, 1939-1943: An Interview with Peter Busa and Matta, Conducted in Minneapolis in December 1966 263
42. Concerning the Beginnings of the New York School, 1939-1943: An Interview with Robert Motherwell Conducted in New York in January 1967 276
43. The 1970s EMERGING CONTEXTS AND CLOSER READINGS
44. Jungian Aspects of Jackson Pollock's Imagery 293
45. Residual Sign Systems in Abstract Expressionism 313
46. Robert Motherwell's Elegies to the Spanish Republic 324
47. Excerpt from "Abstract Expressionism: The Politics of Apolitical Painting," Parts 338
48. Graham, Gorky, de Kooning and the "Ingres Revival" in America 346
49. Symbolic Pregnance in Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still 361
50. The 1980s READING NEW SIGNIFICATIONS
51. The New Adventures of the Avant-Garde in America: Greenberg, Pollock, or from Trotskyism to the New Liberalism of the "Vital Center" 383
52. James Joyce and the First Generation New York School 399
53. The Market for Abstract Expressionism: The Time Lag Between Critical and Commercial Acceptance 415
54. The Impact of Nietzsche and Northwest Coast Indian Art on Barnett Newman's Idea of Redemption in the Abstract Sublime 422
55. The Rhetoric of Abstract Expressionism 442
56. The 1990s RE(DE)FINING ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
57. Martha Graham and Abstract Expressionism 489
58. "Introduction," "AbstractExpressionism and Afro-American Marginalisation," and "Dissent During the McCarthy Period" 510
59. Modern Man Discourse and the New York School 527
60. In Defense of Abstract Expressionism 535
61. Reconsidering the Stain: On Gender, Identity, and New York School Painting 560
62. "Of the Earth, the Damned, and of the Recreated": Aspects of Clyfford Still's Earlier Work 580
63. Excerpt from "Water and Lipstick: De Kooning in Transition" 594
64. Barnett Newman' s Stripe Paintings and Kabbalah : A Jewish Take 615
65. Arcadian Nightmares: The Evolution of David Smith and Dorothy Dehner's Work at Bolton Landing 625
66. The Crisis of the Easel Picture 645
67. Selected Bibliography 665
68. Index 707