Helen Frankenthaler

Painting History, Writing Painting

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Av Alison Rowley, Alison (Independent) Rowley

529 kr

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This ground-breaking and extraordinary examination of the work of Abstract Expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler overturns assumptions about the artist, whose work has been burdened by its label as ‘the bridge between Pollock and what was possible’. Trained as a painter, Alison Rowley brings a keen eye to Frankenthaler’s paintings, returning to the fore the artist’s debt not only to Jackson Pollock but also to Cezanne, and speculating for the first time as to her artistic responses to wider political events, in particular the Rosenberg trial.Making a fascinating case, too, for the connections between the ‘breakthrough’ work Mountains and Sea and Lily Briscoe’s painting in Virginia Woolf’s novel To the Lighthouse, this beautifully written book provides crucial insights into Frankenthaler’s practice.With her bold and radical painting now appearing in major international exhibitions, this paperback re-issue of Rowley’s original 2007 study comes at a significant moment of reappraisal, and confirms Frankenthaler’s status as one of the most important artists of her generation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-06-13
Mått156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts
Antal sidor184
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350297036

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By offering a profound re-viewing and perceptive contextualisation of two of Helen Frankenthaler’s seminal paintings from the 1950s: Mountain and Sea and Eden, Alison Rowley expands feminist scholarship and challenges the established canon of modernist art history. Grounded in the author’s deep intellectual curiosity and her intimate comprehension of the creative process, the production of knowledge and the formation of subjectivity, the book stimulates new and nuanced insights into the practice and life of one of the major American postwar painters. This re-engagement with Frankenthaler’s work is critical reading for anyone interested in the writing of art history.