Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism

by Erika Doss

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In this acclaimed revisionist study, Erika Doss chronicles an historic cultural change in American art from the dominance of regionalism in the 1930s to abstract expressionism in the 1940s. She centers her study on Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock, Benton's foremost student in the early thirties, charting Pollock's early imitation of Benton's style before his radical move to abstraction. By situating painting within the evolving sociopolitical...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226159434

ISBN13:9780226159430

Release Date:June 1995

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:462 Pages

Weight:1.68 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Art Art History Arts, Music & Photography Education & Reference Humanities Individual Artists Reference

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