The Fear and the Fury: Abstract Expressionism
This course explores an unparalleled period in American art and provides an in-depth survey of a movement that is associated with the boundless creative energy of 1950s New York. In the immediate aftermath of WWII, this was “an age of anxiety”, of improvisational jazz, of Beat poetry – and of ‘Abstract Expressionist’ artists like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko breaking with American self-doubt about its artistic provincialism and unleashing a new confidence in American painting.
The movement subsequently laid itself open to waves of criticism with its earnestness, high-mindedness and machismo, but more recently new ways of contextualising Abstract Expressionism have emerged. They range from the reappraisal of the extraordinary contribution by women artists to Abstract Expressionism to an understanding of its gestural painting in the context of related innovations in artistic centres as far apart as Cologne, Copenhagen and Caracas. Exploring these new approaches along with recently discovered archival material, our course aims to arrive at a fresh perspective on this important movement in modern American art. We shall look closely at the careers of individual artists, from the Armenian refugee Arshile Gorky to the Parisian émigré Joan Mitchell, and contextualise key painters and artworks in thematic lectures that examine Abstract Expressionism in relation to contemporary philosophy, art criticism, exhibition history, and the intrigue of Cold War politics.
میزبان: مؤسسهٔ هنر کورتالد
زمان: ۱۲ تا ۱۶ ژوئن ۲۰۲۳ | ۲۲ تا ۲۶ خرداد ۱۴۰۲
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