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On modern American art : selected essays

Author: Robert Rosenblum
Publisher: New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Robert Rosenblum is one of the most acute observers of modern American art - a critic, curator, professor, and art historian whose writings helped establish the reputations of many important artists and who continues to influence the contemporary art scene. This book collects Rosenblum's fifty best essays from the last forty years - most never before published in book form and two of them unpublished - to take  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Rosenblum
ISBN: 0810936836 9780810936836
OCLC Number: 40990181
Description: 384 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: What is American about American art? --
Resurrecting Augustus Vincent Tack --
Dada bouquet for New York --
Reconstructing Benton --
De Chirico's long American shadow --
Remembrace of fairs past --
American painting since the second world war --
Abstract sublime --
Arshile Gorky --
Jackson Pollock --
Fatal women of Picasso and De Kooning --
Notes on De Kooning --
Rothko's surrealist years --
Rothko and tradition --
My life with Rothko --
View of Andrew Wyeth --
Morris Louis at the Guggenheim Museum --
Louise Nevelson --
James Bishop : reason and impulse --
Cy Twombly --
Jasper Johns --
Johns's Three flags --
Jasper Johns : the realm of memory --
Frank Stella : five years of variations on an "irreducible" theme --
Frank Stella, 1958 to 1965 --
Stella's third dimension --
Pop art and non-pop art --
Roy Lichtenstein and the realist revolt --
Roy Lichtenstein : past, present, future --
Andy Warhol : court painter to the 70s --
Warhol as art history --
Mel Ramos : how Venus came to California --
Bill Anthony's greatest hits --
Notes on Sol Lewitt --
Dan Flavin : name in lights --
Alex Katz's American accent --
George Segal --
Alfred Leslie --
Remembering Joe Brainard --
Robert Moskowitz --
Postcript : some recent neo-romantic mutations --
Scott Burton : the last tableau --
Sturtevant --
Mike Bidlo --
Eric Fischl --
David Salle --
Mark Innerst's time capsules --
Jeff Koons --
Mike and Doug Starn --
McDermott and McGough : the art of time travel --
Bibliography of writings by Robert Rosenblum.
Responsibility: by Robert Rosenblum.

Abstract:

"Robert Rosenblum is one of the most acute observers of modern American art - a critic, curator, professor, and art historian whose writings helped establish the reputations of many important artists and who continues to influence the contemporary art scene. This book collects Rosenblum's fifty best essays from the last forty years - most never before published in book form and two of them unpublished - to take readers on an exploration of the meanings, movements, personalities, and paradoxes of American art of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

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