Helen Frankenthaler

Alison Rowley has held academic positions at the Universities of Leeds, Ulster and Huddersfield, UK. She has published on the work of Chantal Akerman, Trinh T. Minh-Ha, and Martha Rosler.

• Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface1. Mountains and Sea: Cézanne’s Country in New York and Nova Scotia 2. 1927: Other Countries, Other Cézannes 3. A Spatial Feeling Connected with Landscapes 4. Something New in Terms of Nature 5. A Painting of the Rosenberg Era 6. Eden: Et in Arcadia Ego Post Factum Notes Bibliography Index

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.