Pollock and After: The Critical Debate

ISBN-13: 9780415228671 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 396 str.

Francis Frascina

Opis

First published in 1985, Pollock and After is a collection of writings on abstract Expressionism. This revised edition, featuring ten new articles, takes account of new critical approaches to post-war American art. Section one examines the legacy of the influential Modernist critic, Clement Greenberg, including both Greenberg's own writings and the debate between T.J. Clark and Michael Fried over his contribution. Section two focuses on revisionist texts, questioning the adequacy of Modernist art history and examining the role of cultural institutions in the United States and the relationship between abstract expressionism and the politics of McCarthyism during the Cold War. The entirely new section three is devoted to recent developments of the critiques first raised by the revisionists.

O autorze

Francis Frascina is John Raven Professor of Visual Arts at Keele University. His publications include: Art, Politics and Dissent: Aspects of the Art Left in Sixties America (Manchester University Press 1999), (co-editor with with Jonathan Harris) Art in Modern Culture: An Anthology of Critical Texts (Phaidon 1992), and (co-editor with Paul Wood, Jonathan Harris and Charles Harrison) Modernism in Dispute: Art Since the Forties (Yale University Press 1993).