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Photography has been called "nature's pen," for it is incomparable in its ability to capture and keep images of the world on paper. It therefore makes sense to associate this medium mainly with figural images. Three museums would like to clear up this misunderstanding in this book. At its center is today's multifaceted, imaginative abstract photography, which fluctuates between analog and digital images. This publication compiles non-figurative works of photography to create a comprehensive, fundamental survey. Here, famous fine art photographers such as Wolfgang Tillmans, Thomas Ruff and Catherine Opie meet exciting, newly discovered photographers. Supplementing the book's inventive visual worlds are interviews with the artists and explanatory texts by renowned critics. Exhibition: Frac Normandie Rouen, France (12.09. - 06.12.2020) / Micro Onde - Centre d'Art de l'Onde, Vélizy-Villacoublay, France (19.09. - 02.11.2020) / Centre Photographique d'Île-de-France, Pontault-Combault, France (26.09. - 13.12.2020).

Photography, Abstract --- 760.5 --- fotografie --- abstracte kunst --- abstracte fotografie --- photografie --- Douglas, Stan --- Leonard, Zoe --- Ruff, Thomas --- Karsten, Barbara --- Tiberghien, Laure --- Riemer, Sebastian --- Kruithof, Anouk --- Whitaker, Hannah --- fotografie als kunst --- fotografie, verzamelen - musea - tentoonstellingen --- Photography, Artistic --- Exhibitions --- Photography --- Abstract [fine arts style] --- Kasten, Barbara --- Abstract [modern European style]

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In 1950, 18 American abstract painters signed an open letter addressed to the president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to express their intense disapproval of the museum's contemporaneous exhibit American Painting Today: 1950. The artists were William Baziotes, James Brooks, Fritz Bultman, Jimmy Ernst, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Weldon Kees, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Richard Pousette-Dart, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Theodoros Stamos, Hedda Sterne, Clyfford Still and Bradley Walker Tomlin. This artistic coalition, which included many members of the New York School and is now considered a watershed movement in mid-20th-century American art history, challenged the museum's policies for their narrow understanding of what made certain art worth exhibiting. Though they resisted being labeled as a collective, media coverage of the museum boycott, which included a now-famous group portrait in Life magazine taken by photographer Nina Leen, ultimately contributed to the success of the 18 "Irascibles" in what became known as the abstract expressionist movement. This publication collects 18 paintings by the artists, images from Leen's photoshoot and extensive documentation of the letter-writing process with relevant catalogs and magazines. Featuring more than 230 illustrations alongside original essays by several art historians and curators that examine the complex history of the New York School, this volume serves as a time capsule of the exciting period of early abstract expressionism in the United States. Exhibition: Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain (06.03.-07.06.2020).

Art styles --- Painting --- painting [image-making] --- Abstract [fine arts style] --- Modern [style or period] --- painters [artists] --- Artists --- Metropolitan Museum of Art [New York, N.Y.] --- anno 1950-1959 --- United States --- Artists and museums --- Abstract expressionism --- New York school of art --- Art américain --- Expressionnisme abstrait --- Art abstrait --- History --- Public opinion --- Competitions --- New York (N.Y.) --- New York --- Leen, Nina, --- Irascibles (Group of artists) --- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) --- American Painting Today (Exhibition) --- Ecole de new york --- Painting, American --- Artists and museums - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century - Exhibitions --- Abstract expressionism - New York (State) - New York - Exhibitions --- Abstract expressionism - Public opinion - Exhibitions --- Painting - Competitions - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century - Exhibitions --- New York school of art - Expositions --- Art américain - New York (N.Y.) - 20e siècle - Expositions --- Expressionnisme abstrait - New York (N.Y.) - New York - Expositions --- Art abstrait - New York (État) - New York - Expositions --- Leen, Nina, - 1909-1995 --- Abstract [modern European style] --- New York School --- United States of America