Pollock and After: Critical Debate
Pollock and After: The Critical Debate brings together key writings on debates about Abstract Expressionism and Modernist art history. It is an essential resource for understanding post-war American art and culture. The second edition has been fully revised and updated in response to new critical approaches to post-war American art. It includes nine new articles and a substantial overview essay by Francis Frascina.\ Articles are grouped into three parts, each with an introduction by Francis...
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Pollock and After: The Critical Debate brings together key writings on debates about Abstract Expressionism and Modernist art history. It is an essential resource for understanding post-war American art and culture. The second edition has been fully revised and updated in response to new critical approaches to post-war American art. It includes nine new articles and a substantial overview essay by Francis Frascina.Articles are grouped into three parts, each with an introduction by Francis Frascina. Part One includes two foundational articles by the influential Modernist critic, Clement Greenberg, and represents the debate about Greenberg's work, with contributions by T.J. Clark and Michael Fried. Part Two focuses on revisionist writers, who questioned established ideas about Modernist art history, examining the relationship between Abstract Expressionism and the politics of McCarthyism and the Cold War.The third part, which is new to the volume, is devoted to recent developments of revisionist critiques. Contributors explore the work of Greenberg's contemporaries, the relationship between critical and commercial responses to Abstract Expressionism, and perceptions of cultural value in the 1940s and 1950s, and challenge assumptions about ethnicity, gender and sexuality in the construction of the 'post-war American artist'.
AcknowledgementsixPrefacexiLooking Forward, Looking Back: 1985-19991Part 1The critical debate and its originsIntroduction (1985)291Avant-Garde and Kitsch482Towards a Newer Laocoon603Clement Greenberg's Theory of Art714How Modernism Works: a Response to T. J. Clark875Arguments About Modernism: a Reply to Michael Fried102Part 2History: representation and misrepresentation--the case of abstract expressionism: Revisionism in the 1970s and early 1980sIntroduction (1985)1136American Painting During the Cold War1307Abstract Expressionism, Weapon of the Cold War1478Art and Politics in Cold War America1559Abstract Expressionism: the Politics of Apolitical Painting18110The New Adventures of the Avant-Garde in America19711Avant-Gardes and Partisans Reviewed211Part 3Revisionism revisitedIntroduction (1999)22912Abstract Expressionism, Automatism and the Age of Automation23413Action, Revolution and Painting26114The Market for Abstract Expressionism: the Time Lag Between Critical and Commercial Acceptance28815Revisiting the Revisionists: the Modern, Its Critics, and the Cold War29416Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics30717Pollock and Krasner: Script and Postscript32918Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Gender and Subjectivity34819Greenberg on Pollock361
