Action/abstraction : Pollock, de Kooning, and American art, 1940-1976 / edited by Norman L. Kleeblatt ; cultural timeline by Maurice Berger ; essays by Debra Bricker Balken [and others]. - xi, 332 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 32 cm

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976, organized by The Jewish Museum"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-313) and index.

Introduction : Action, abstraction, reaction / Norman L. Kleeblatt -- Abstract expressionism : a cultural timeline, 1940-1976 / Maurice Berger -- Plates -- Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg : convergences and divergences / Irving Sandler -- Greenberg, Rosenberg, and postwar American art / Norman L. Kleeblatt -- Our "modern sensibility" / Caroline A. Jones -- Harold Rosenberg and the American action painters / Debra Bricker Balken -- Scupltors and critics, arenas and complaints / Douglas Dreishpoon -- Abstraction and representation : a brief history / Charlotte Eyerman -- "That oldtime Jewish sect called American art criticism" / Mark Godfrey -- Intellectuals after modernism / Morris Dickstein.

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Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994
Rosenberg, Harold, 1906-1978


Abstract expressionism--United States--Exhibitions
Art, American--20th century--Exhibitions
Art criticism--History--United States--20th century.

N6512.5.A25 / A33 2008

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