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This book explores how theories of embodiment, the gesture, hysteria and subjectivity can deepen our understanding of New York abstract painting. Providing readings of paintings by Krasner and examining images of Pollock and Frankenthaler at work, it builds a bridge between the New York artist-women and their other, Marilyn Monroe.

Sex role in art. --- Women artists --- Abstract expressionism --- Krasner, Lee, --- Clement Greenberg. --- Helen Frankenthaler. --- Jackson Pollock. --- Lee Krasner. --- Marilyn Monroe. --- New York. --- abstract expressionism. --- action painting. --- modernist art. --- women artists. --- New York (State)

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The first in-depth biography of Sam Francis, the legendary American abstract painter who broke all the rules in his personal and artistic life.Light on Fire is the first comprehensive biography of Sam Francis, one of the most important American abstract artists of the twentieth century. Based on Gabrielle Selz’s unprecedented access to Francis’s files, as well as private correspondence and hundreds of interviews, this book traces the extraordinary and ultimately tragic journey of a complex and charismatic artist who first learned to paint as a former air-corps pilot encased for three years in a full-body cast. While still a young man, Francis saw his color-saturated paintings fetch the highest prices of any living artist. His restless desire resulted in five marriages and homes on three continents; his entrepreneurial spirit led to founding a museum, a publishing company, a reforestation program and several nonprofits. Light on Fire captures the art, life, personality, and talent of a man whom the art historian and museum director William C. Agee described as a rare artist participating in the “visionary reconstruction of art history,” defying creative boundaries among the likes of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning. With settings from World War II San Francisco to postwar Paris, New York, Tokyo, and Los Angeles, Selz crafts an intimate portrait of a man who sought to resolve in art the contradictions he couldn’t resolve in life.

Painters --- Painting, American --- Francis, Sam, --- Art --- Vocational guidance. --- 20th century American painters. --- David Park. --- Jackson Pollock. --- Joan Mitchell. --- Museum of Contemporary Art. --- New York School. --- San Francisco art community. --- WWII. --- biography of abstract expressionism artist. --- spinal tuberculosis.

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Clement Greenberg (1909-1994), champion of abstract expressionism and modernism-of Pollock, Miró, and Matisse-has been esteemed by many as the greatest art critic of the second half of the twentieth century, and possibly the greatest art critic of all time. This volume, a lively reassessment of Greenberg's writings, features three approaches to the man and his work: Greenberg as critic, doctrinaire, and theorist. The book also features a transcription of a public debate with Greenberg that de Duve organized at the University of Ottawa in 1988. Clement Greenberg Between the Lines will be an indispensable resource for students, scholars, and enthusiasts of modern art. "In this compelling study, Thierry de Duve reads Greenberg against the grain of the famous critic's critics-and sometimes against the grain of the critic himself. By reinterpreting Greenberg's interpretations of Pollock, Duchamp, and other canonical figures, de Duve establishes new theoretical coordinates by which to understand the uneasy complexities and importance of Greenberg's practice." John O'Brian, editor of Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticisms "De Duve is an expert on theoretical aesthetics and thus well suited to reassess the formalist tenets of the late American art critic's theory on art and culture. . . . De Duve's close readings of Greenberg . . . contain much of interest, and the author clearly enjoys matching wits with 'the world's best known art critic.'" Library Journal

Art criticism --- Art, Modern --- Affichistes (Group of artists) --- Fluxus (Group of artists) --- Modernism (Art) --- Schule der Neuen Prächtigkeit (Group of artists) --- Zero (Group of artists) --- History --- Greenberg, Clement, --- Hardesh, K. --- Greenberg, Clement --- abstract expressionism, modernism, matisse, pollock, miro, art critic, university of ottawa, duchamp, aesthetics, debate, culture, color, emotion, criticism, interpretation, history, artistic movements, theory, form, pattern, pointillism, drip technique, action painting, abstraction, creativity, representation, nonfiction, figurative elements.