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Buchtipp :
Joan Mitchell
As an artist, Joan Mitchell's talents and
significance were often overshadowed by the time and place of her work. While living in
New York in the 1950s, for instance, she had to share a stage with such luminaries as
Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, a feat further complicated by her gender. Second,
she chose to live in France for the last decades of her life, causing her to slip from the
collective memory of most Americans. Regardless of this undeservedly diminished stature,
Mitchell will go down in history as a leader of the Abstract Expressionist movement,
leaving behind an impressive and influential body of work. Joan Mitchell is very much a
labor of love, since, in her will, the artist asked her longtime friend Klaus Kertess to
write the text for this collection, a task that he completes with style and skill. Along
with revealing her personality and motivations, Kertess does an admirable job of detailing
the impressive artistic circles Mitchell ran in while living in Chicago, New York, and
Paris. This volume exhibits 120 pieces of her work, as well as a detailed and
comprehensive biographical chronology that is sure to help jog some memories.
Joan Mitchell (1926-1992) was one of the major artists of the Abstract Expressionist
movement. She won a place for herself in the New York art world of the 1950s and achieved
recognition for her grand yet personal style of painting. That she is not more widely
appreciated in the United States is partly because she lived in France during the later
decades of her life. In her will, Mitchell directed that the critic and curator, Klaus
Kertess, write the text for this study of her life and work. The book traces her evolution
from her earliest efforts as a young artist in Chicago and her arrival in New York in the
1940s. It gives special attention to the array of gifted painters and poets in the New
York art scene of the 1950s, when Mitchell first made her mark, and discusses at length
her friendships with artists such as Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, and writers such
as Frank O'Hara.
Gebundene Ausgabe - 204 Seiten (Februar 1997) Harry N. Abrams Inc |
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Abstrakter
Expressionismus |
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ArtLex on Abstract Expressionism |
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| Künstler |
| | Appel, Karel |
| | Baziotes, William |
| | Brooks, James |
| | Burri, Alberto |
| | Bush, Jack |
| | Collazo, Raphael |
| | Donati, Enrico |
| | Ferren, John |
| | Francis, Sam |
| | Frankenthaler, Helen |
| | Gorky, Arshile |
| | Gottlieb, Adolph |
| | Graves, Morris |
| | Gray, Cleve |
| | Guston, Philip |
| | Hartigan, Grace |
| | Held, Al |
| | Hofmann, Hans |
| | Jenkins, Paul |
| | Johns, Jasper |
| | Kline, Franz |
| | Kooning, Willem de |
| | Krasner, Lee |
| | Louis, Morris |
| | Marca-Relli, Conrad |
| | Marioni, Joseph |
| | Morrison, George |
| | Motherwell, Robert |
| | Newman, Barnett |
| | Noland, Kenneth |
| | Pollock, Jackson |
| | Reinhardt, Ad |
| | Riopelle, Jean Paul |
| | Rothko, Mark |
| | Scott, William |
| | Still, Clyfford |
| | Tàpies, Antoni |
| | Tobey, Mark |
| | Vicente, Esteban |
| | Yunkers, Adja |
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Informel : Übersichtsseite |
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Informel und Materie |
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Aktion und Geste |
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Figurative Abstraktion |
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Struktur |
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Tachismus |
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Informelle Skulptur |
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