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Abstract Expressionism

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Hailed as the first American-born art movement to have a worldwide influence, Abstract Expressionism denotes the non-representational use of paint as a means of personal expression. It emerged in America in the 1940s, with lead protagonists including Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning. Abstract Expressionism spawned many different stylistic tendencies but two particularly prominent sub-categories: action painting, exemplified by de Kooning and Pollock, and color field painting, made most famous by Rothko. Throughout, Abstract Expressionists strove to convey emotions and ideas through the making of marks, through forms, textures, shades, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Taschen GmbH Germany
Number of pages
96
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
587g
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Cologne, Germany
ISBN
9783836505178
SKU
V9783836505178
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Ref
99-34

About Barbara Hess
Barbara Hess (b. 1964) is an art historian, critic and translator, resident in Cologne. Her numerous articles on contemporary art have featured in Camera Austria, Flash Art, Kunst-Bulletin and Texte zur Kunst. She co-curated the touring exhibition Ready to Shoot: Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum/videogalerie schum at the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf and the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Her TASCHEN ... Read more

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