Artist as author : action and intent in late-modernist American painting / Christa Noel Robbins.

"This is the first extended study of authorship in mid-20th century abstract painting in the US. It describes how artists and critics used the medium of painting to advance their own claims about the role that they believed authorship should play in dictating the value, significance and social impac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robbins, Christa Noel (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Painting, American > 20th century.
Modernism (Art) > United States > History > 20th century.
Art, Abstract > United States > History > 20th century.
ART / General.
Art, Abstract.
Modernism (Art)
Painting, American.
United States.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:217 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Variant Title:
Action and intent in late-modernist American painting
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : the artist as author
  • The act-painting
  • The expressive fallacy
  • Rhetorics of motives
  • Self-discipline
  • Event as painting
  • Conclusion : gridlocked.