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Author Hess, Barbara, 1963- author

Title Abstract expressionism / Barbara Hess ; Uta Grosenick (Ed.) ; translation, Michael Scuffil
Published [Place of publication not identified] : Taschen, 2015
Cologne, [Germany] : Taschen, [2016]
©2016

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Description 95 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 27 cm
Series Basic art series 2.0
Basic art series 2.0.
Contents Jackson Pollock -- Arshile Gorky -- Hans Hofmann -- Ad Reinhardt -- William Baziotes -- Philip Guston -- Barnett Newman -- Mark Rothko -- Lee Krasner -- Clyfford Still -- Bradley Walker Tomlin -- Willem de Kooning -- David Smith -- Mark Tobey -- Sam Francis -- Richard Diebenkorn -- Robert Motherwell -- Joan Mitchell -- Helen Frankenthaler -- Adolph Gottlieb -- Franz Kline -- Theodoros Stamos
Summary Considered the first art movement originating in the Americas to have a worldwide influence, abstract expressionism spawned two very different sub-categories: action painting (exemplified by Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock) and color field painting, made most famous by Mark Rothko. Abstract expressionists strove to express emotions and ideas directly on canvas via color, form and texture, the quality of brushstrokes and other marks, the dripping of paint, for example while embracing accident and chance, and celebrating the very act of painting. Featured artists: William Baziotes, Helen Frankenthaler, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, David Smith, Theodoros Stamos, Clyfford Still, Mark Tobey, Bradley Walter Tomlin
Notes Originally published: 2005
Translated from the German
Subject Abstract expressionism -- United States.
Abstract expressionism.
Painters -- United States.
Painting, Abstract -- United States.
Painting, American -- 20th century.
Painting, Modern -- 20th century.
Author Grosenick, Uta, editor
Scuffil, Michael, translator
LC no. 00004001
ISBN 9783836505178