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Inger Ekdahl : Swedish Abstract Expressionism
Inger Ekdahl was a female painter at the center of Swedish Abstract Expressionism in the fifties. This essay investigates how her art was received in Stockholm and Paris. We conclude that although her type of art dominated the avant-garde in Paris during
Engström, Alexander
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The history of Europe of 1933–1945 was very important and had a significant influence on painting of American artists of American abstractionism. This term – American abstractionism or New York abstractionism, although inexact and somewhat confused ...
Eleonora Jedlińska
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Abstract Expressionism: An American Phenomenon
One of the newest types of painting in the modern tradition is Abstract Expressionism. It began in New York around 1944. All the experience of Americans with modern art had been poured into the melting pot of the city.
Royston, Judee Thompson
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An Unlikely Match: Modernism and Feminism in Lynda Benglis’s Contraband
In 1969, Lynda Benglis withdrew her large latex floor painting, Contraband, from the exhibition Anti-Illusion: Procedures/Materials. Looking beyond the logistical problems that caused Benglis to pull the work, I suggest that it challenged the conceptual ...
Becky Bivens
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The British response to abstract expressionism of the USA c. 1950-1963 [PDF]
PhD ThesisAbstract Expressionism was arguably the most important art movement after the Second World War and it has in many ways influenced all subsequent art movements in the West.
Wang, Hui Ping
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From “The New Sculpture” to Garden Statuary: the suppression of Abstract Expressionist sculpture [PDF]
In the 1940s, David Smith, David Hare, Herbert Ferber, Ibram Lassaw, Seymour Lipton and Theodore Roszak were part of a new generation of sculptors working in New York who used welding and other direct-metal techniques to make abstract sculpture.
Meghan Bissonnette
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This paper explores the theme of artistic “cross-pollination” through the lens of Mark Tobey (1890-1976)’s engagement with East Asian aesthetics and philosophies, significantly impacting post-World War II American abstract art.
Zhong, Phyllis
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One hundred years after its emergence, the Amsterdam School still manages to fascinate people with its whimsical forms and bright colours. Although the frame of reference for the forms is known, there has been less interest in investigating the use of ...
Jürgen Stoye
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Art as a Weapon: Abstract Expressionism During the Cold War
Art as a Weapon: Abstract Expressionism during the Cold ...
Sanders, Eric
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Landscape subjects reappear throughout Abstract Expressionism. Although it is often overlooked, landscapes were perhaps a natural subject for a group of artists that were known to work from their environment.
Marcantonio, Aileen F
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