Author: Landauer, Susan (Introduction by Dore Ashton) Title: The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism
Description: University of California Press / Laguna Art Museum, 1996. hardcover. Illustrated glossy wraps. xxiii, 271 pp. Profusely illustrated in color, some bw. An examination of the Abstract Expressionist movement, which provides a clear picture of the artists and influences that came together in San Francisco. The book argues that the movement resulted from a collective impulse rather than the inspiration of a small band of New York artists. Extensive index, general and artist-specific bibliography. An astounding resource. Contents as follows: Foreword / Naomi Vine -- Introduction / Dore Ashton -- 1. On the Farther Shore of Abstract Expressionism. Mapping a Movement. On the Question of a San Francisco School -- 2. First Tremors. The Modernist Prologue. Douglas MacAgy and the California School of Fine Arts. Faculty I: Bischoff, Smith, Park, and Spohn. Faculty II: Varda, Corbett, and Diebenkorn. Clyfford Still: Background and Early Work -- 3. The Rigors of Freedom. Disdain for the Thesis. Consensus by Negation. Devices of Dissension -- 4. The Forties: Variations. Clyfford Still, 1947-50. Mark Rothko's Visits to San Francisco. Edward Corbett, 1947-50. Stillman, Kuhlman, Dixon, and the Sausalito Six. Richard Diebenkorn, 1947-50 -- 5. The Fifties: Crosscurrents and Extensions. The End of a Golden Era? Arrivals and Departures: Corbett, Dugmore, Briggs, McChesney, Jefferson, and Others. Hassel Smith, 1948-60. Frank Lobdell, 1947-62. Richard Diebenkorn, 1950-55. Kelly, Gechtoff, Saccaro, DeFeo, and Other Second-Generation Abstract Expressionists -- Appendix I: Artist Biographies -- Appendix II: Group and Joint Exhibition History, 1940-1965. VG/VG, exlibrary with few stamps, label at base of spine and on rear upper right dj. In mylar, a solid and clean copy, never checked out.
Keywords: American Art ; California Art ; ; General Art - American
Price: US$ 30.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 202640
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