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"Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered."
- W. H. Auden
(1907 - 1973)
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ZIN Product Number: 10139638
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 Format: Paperback, 290 pages
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520086112
Release Date: Jan 11, 2001
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A free-spirited wave of creative energy swept through the San Francisco art community after World War II. Challenging accepted modes of painting, Abstract Expressionists produced highly experimental works that jolted the public out of its postwar complacency. Susan Landauer's comprehensive examination of this dynamic movement provides the first clear picture of the artists and influences that came together in San Francisco's invigorating world of Abstract Expressionism. Landauer argues that Abstract Expressionism resulted from a broad collective impulse rather than the inspiration of a small band of New York artists. Documenting the interchanges between the East and West Coasts, she cites areas of mutual influence and shows the impact of San Francisco on the New York School, including artists such as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt. San Francisco's Beat poets, Dixieland jazz musicians, and the area's stunning vistas were essential parts of Abstract Expressionism, as were artistic and spiritual contacts with Asia. Under Douglas MacAgy and Clyfford Still, the California School of Fine Arts became the undisputed center of vanguard abstraction on the West Coast. Artists such as Edward Corbett, Jay DeFeo, James Budd Dixon, Frank Lobdell, and Hassel Smith produced gritty, provocative images whose impact exted well beyond California. Landauer also notes the importance of Grace L. McCann Morley, director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, who opened the museum to major Abstract Expressionist figures, and Jermayne MacAgy, who brought local and international artists together. Enlivened by oral histories, Landauer's book is a rewarding exploration of a vital period in modern art.Richlyillustrated with 96 color plates, it celebrates the energy and lasting impact of a special time.
Author Biography: Susan Landauer is an indepent writer and curator living in Oakland, California. Her previous publications include Clyfford Still: The Buffalo and San Francisco Collections (1992) and, with Janice Driesbach, Obata's Yosemite (1993). Dore Ashton is Professor of Art History at the Cooper Union in New York. Among her many books is A Fable of Modern Art (California, 1991).
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"This well written, fully researched, and handsomely illustrated volume gives potent new life to artists and ideas nearly lost to American art history. Susan Landauer's enlightening book will play an important role in redefining the post-World War II avant-garde as a national rather than an East Coast phenomenon." -- Henry T. Hopkins
| |  | | | | Foreword | | | Preface | | | Introduction | | | 1 | On the Farther Shore of Abstract Expressionism | | | Mapping a Movement | 1 | | On the Question of a San Francisco School | 13 | | 2 | First Tremors | | | The Modernist Prologue | 29 | | Douglas MacAgy and the California School of Fine Arts | 35 | | Faculty I: Bischoff, Smith, Park, and Spohn | 37 | | Faculty II: Varda, Corbett, and Diebenkorn | 47 | | Clyfford Still: Background and Early Work | 52 | | 3 | The Rigors of Freedom | | | Disdain for the Thesis | 61 | | Consensus by Negation | 64 | | Devices of Dissension | 71 | | 4 | The Forties: Variations | | | Clyfford Still, 1947-50 | 87 | | Mark Rothko's Visits to San Francisco | 91 | | Edward Corbett, 1947-50 | 93 | | Stillman, Kuhlman, Dixon, and the Sausalito Six | 102 | | Richard Diebenkorn, 1947-50 | 116 | | 5 | The Fifties: Crosscurrents and Extensions | | | The End of a Golden Era? | 123 | | Arrivals and Departures: Corbett, Dugmore, Briggs, McChesney, Jefferson, and Others | 124 | | Hassel Smith, 1948-60 | 136 | | Frank Lobdell, 1947-62 | 141 | | Richard Diebenkorn, 1950-55 | 148 | | Kelly, Gechtoff, Saccaro, DeFeo, and Other Second-Generation Abstract Expressionists | 152 | | Epilogue | 168 | | Appendix I: Artist Biographies | 177 | | Appendix II: Group and Joint Exhibition History, 1940-1965 | 195 | | Notes | 211 | | General Bibliography | 243 | | Selected Bibliographies for Individual Artists | 249 | | Index | 257 |
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