This publication accompanies the Figuration Never Died: New York Painterly Painting, 1950-1970
exhibition at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. By about 1950,
forward-looking New York painting was seen as synonymous with
abstraction- especially charged, gestural Abstract Expressionism. But
there was also a strong group of dissenters; artists, all born in the
1920s and many of them students of Hans Hofmann, who never lost their
enthusiasm for the seductive qualities of thick, malleable oil paint.
They remained, for the most part, 'painterly' painters. These rebellious
artists include Lois Dodd, Jane Freilicher, Paul Georges, Grace
Hartigan, Wolf Kahn, Alex Katz, Albert Kresch, Robert de Niro Sr., Paul
Resika, and Anne Tabachnick. The compelling figurative work they made
between about 1950 and 1970, in contrast to the prevailing Abstract
Expressionism of the time, constitutes a significant chapter in the
history of recent American Modernism.
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Höhe: 272 mm
Breite: 264 mm
Dicke: 15 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-7329864-3-5 (9781732986435)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Karen Wilkin is an independent curator and art critic
specialising in 20th-century Modernism. She has organised numerous
exhibitions internationally and is the author of monographs on Stuart
Davis, David Smith, Anthony Caro, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler,
and Hans Hofmann. Bruce Weber was senior curator at the
National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts. His specialty is in
American painting, sculpture, and drawings from the late-18th century to
the mid-20th century, and he has also frequently curated and written on
contemporary American art. Danny Lichtenfeld is the director of the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center in Brattleboro, Vermont.
