Signifying Art
Signifying Art
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USDSignifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960 considers the work of a generation of "respondants" to the New York School, including Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly, who reintroduced pictorialism and verbal content in their paintings and assemblages. Their work, Marjorie Welish argues, often alludes to the history of art and culture. Also examined are the works of Minimal and Conceptual artists, particularly Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt, who sought to make objective and theoretical artifacts in response to the subjectivity that Abstract Expressionism had promoted. By interpreting the work of these artists in light of contemporary issues, Welish offers a fresh reevaluation of some of the major trends and production of postwar American painting.
- Focuses on the 'respondents' to the New York School
- Reinterprets the work of Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly among others
- Book closes with a unique piece that contextualizes the response to an exhibition organized by the author
Reviews & endorsements
"Welish has done an admirable job....I think any reader of her book will come away with a more sophisticated understanding of issues that have occupied artists since 1960." Craig Adcock, CAA Reviews
individually accented survey of post-War
American art." Burlington Magazine
Product details
September 1999Paperback
9780521633932
336 pages
227 × 154 × 22 mm
0.45kg
45 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- Part I. Narrating the Hand:
- 1. Pail for Ganymede: Rauschenberg's sculpture
- 2. Texas, Japan, etc.: Rauschenberg's sense of place
- 3. The art of Cy Twombly
- 4. The art of being sparse, porous, scattered
- 5. Narrating the hand: Cy Twombly and Mary Kelly
- 6. When is a door not a door?
- 7. Frame of mind: interpreting Jasper Johns
- 8. Jasper's patterns
- 9. The specter of art hype and the ghost of Yves Klein
- Part II. Expressionism and Other Expressivites:
- 10. Harold Rosenberg: transforming the earth
- 11. The art of Philip Guston
- 12. Gestural aftermath
- 13. Contesting leisure: Alex Katz and Eric Fischl
- Part III. Ideas of Order:
- 14. Indeterminacy meets encyclopedia: the art of Kestutis Zapkus
- 15. A Greenberg retrospective
- 16. Abstractions: Barnett Newman and James Turrell
- 17. Literature of silence (Nancy Haynes)
- 18. Boulders from Flatland: the drawings of Jene Highstein
- 19. Box, aspects of (Donald Judd)
- 20. Quality through quantity
- 21. Maquettes and models: Siah Armajani and Hannes Bruner
- 22. Ideas of order (Sol Le Witt)
- 23. Contextualizing 'The Open Work'.
