Surrealism in American Art.
NMR| N° d'inventaire | 23748 |
| Format | 22 x 28 |
| Détails | 192 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782711874798 |
This alternative history of postwar American art involves observing the permanence, often minimized or rendered invisible, of the surrealist thread that went almost unnoticed in the abstract expressionism of the first generation (Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still) and the second generation (Claire Falkenstein, Helen Frankenthaler), until the end of the 1960s, when Donald Judd opened his seminal essay "Specific Objects" with reproductions of biomorphic works by Lee Bontecou and Claes Oldenburg, and when Lucy Lippard certainly played a role in bringing together a number of women artists such as Eva Hesse and Louise Bourgeois in the exhibition "Eccentric Abstraction."
This history includes some of the most famous artists of the period and highlights underrated but essential aspects of their work, and allows us to discover artists little known in France to the general public.
This alternative history of postwar American art involves observing the permanence, often minimized or rendered invisible, of the surrealist thread that went almost unnoticed in the abstract expressionism of the first generation (Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still) and the second generation (Claire Falkenstein, Helen Frankenthaler), until the end of the 1960s, when Donald Judd opened his seminal essay "Specific Objects" with reproductions of biomorphic works by Lee Bontecou and Claes Oldenburg, and when Lucy Lippard certainly played a role in bringing together a number of women artists such as Eva Hesse and Louise Bourgeois in the exhibition "Eccentric Abstraction."
This history includes some of the most famous artists of the period and highlights underrated but essential aspects of their work, and allows us to discover artists little known in France to the general public.