Art in America, 1945-1970 : writings from the age of abstract expressionism, pop art and minimalism /

An invigorating panorama of art writing from a crucial quarter century, adding vital context with incisive commentaries.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Perl, Jed (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Random House Inc., [2014] New York : Library of America, [2014]
Series:	Library of America ; 259.
Subjects:	Art, American > United States > History > 20th century. Art criticism > United States > History > 20th century. Abstract expressionism. Pop art. Minimal art.

Table of Contents:

My painting / Jackson Pollock
The romantics were prompted ; Two statements from The tiger's eye / Mark Rothko
The first man was an artist ; The sublime is now ; Ohio, 1949 / Barnett Newman
Art of this century / Peggy Guggenheim
(from) The amazing and invariable Beauford Delaney / Henry Miller
Introduction to Helen Levitt's A way of seeing / James Agee
Journals, 1948-50 / Charles Burchfield
Mondrian, kleenex, and you / Robert M. Coates
The Renaissance and order ; What abstract art means to me / Willem de Kooning
The thirties ; Willem de Kooning ; Katz: collage, cutout, cut-up ; The silence at night ; "At first sight, not Pollock, Kline scared" ; "Alex Katz paints his north window" / Edwin Denby
Jackson Pollock: the infinite labyrinth / Parker Tyler
Elie Nadelman: sculptor of the dance / Lincoln Kirstein
An appreciation / Tennessee Williams
(from) Evil under the sun / Anton Myrer
(from) The search for the real in the visual arts / Hans Hofmann
Review of an exhibition of Willem de Kooning ; The role of nature in modern painting ; "American-type" painting ; Modernist painting / Clement Greenberg
Statement ; An open letter to an art critic / Clyfford Still
An alphabetical guide to modern art ; Alphabetical guide no.2 ; Acrostic for Jackson Pollock / Dwight Ripley
Black or white ; What abstract art means to me / Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell ; Adolph Gottlieb / Weldon Kees
Reminiscence and reverie / Mark Tobey
The visionary painting of Morris Graves / Kenneth Rexroth
Painting in the American grain / William Carlos Williams
Robert Andrew Parker / Marianne Moore
(from) Action on West Fifty-Third Street / Dwight Macdonald
The American action painters ; Parable of American painting ; Evidences ; Mobile, theatrical, active
An academy of risk / Mary McCarthy
A cahier leaf ; Statement ; Four excerpts from a journal / Jack Tworkov
Joan Mitchell / Irving Sandler
(from) An emotional memoir of Franz Kline / Fielding Dawson
(from) The recognitions / William Gaddis
Introduction to Robert Frank's The Americans / Jack Kerouac
On Richard Avedon / Truman Capote
Statement / Aaron Siskind
Against abstract expressionism / Randall Jarrell
Excerpts from an unfinished manuscript titled "Art" / John Graham
Toward meta-form / Alfred Russell
From the diaries / Joseph Cornell
What abstract art means to me / Alexander Calder
(from) The shape of content / Ben Shahn
(from) A sculptor's world / Isamu Noguchi
Tapestry / Anni Albers
The landscape ; The question-what is your hope ; The question-what are your influences-"there is something rather noble about junk" ; Dream / David Smith
Four soldiers; a sculpture in iron by David Smith / Howard Nemerov
An artist's words ; On the creative process ; Form / Louise Bourgeois
Piero della Francesca: the impossiblity of painting faith, hope and Impossibility / Philip Guston
Philip Guston: the last painter ; Give my regards to Eighth Street / Morton Feldman
Abstract art refuses ; Art-as-art / Ad Reinhardt
Harry Callahan: a note ; John Chamberlain ; On the road: notes on artists and poets 1950-1965 / Robert Creeley
Pure paints a picture : Painting a portrait of the President / Elaine de Kooning
The liberating quality of avant-garde art ; On the humanity of abstract painting / Meyer Schapiro
The creative act ; Apropos of "Readymades" / Marcel Duchanp
Statement ; From the journals, 1952 / Grace Hartigan
Why I am not a painter ; David Smith: the color of steel ; Art chronicle I ; Larry Rivers: a memoir / Frank O'Hara
Life among the stones / Larry Rivers
Statement on Poetics ; The painting of Jane Freilicher ; Short reviews from Art News / James Schuyler
(from) Beyond the machine / Calvin Tomkins
At the museum of modern art / May Swenson
The legacy of Jackson Pollock / Allan Kaprow
Happenings: an art of radical juxtaposition / Susan Sontag
On the painter Beauford Delaney / James Baldwin
Bruce Conner: a new sensibility ; Joan Brown / Philip Ledider
A visit with Sam Rodia / Kate Steinitz
Letter to Jerry Reilly / Jess
(from) Iconographical extensions / Robert Duncan
Three letters / H. C. Westermann
The abstract sublime / Robert Rosenblum
Month in review, January 1962 ; Franz Kline (1910-1962) ; Philip Pearlstein and the new philistinism / Sidney Tillim
Jasper Johns: stories and ideas / John Cage
Statement ; Sketchbook notes / Jasper Johns
Statement / Robert Rauschenberg
Contemporary art and the plight of its public / Leo Steinberg
What is pop art? ; (from) The philosophy of Andy Warhol / Andy Warhol
(from) Stor days / Claes Oldenburg
The new American "Sign Painters" / Gene R. Swenson
Junkdump fair surveyed / John Bernard Myers
The paintings of E. E. Cummings ; Richard Stankiewicz ; John Graham ; Against idealism ; Joseph Cornell ; A painter obsessed by blue / Fairfield Porter
Edward Hopper: an American vision / Hilton Kramer
The art of Romare Bearden / Ralph Ellison
Painting as painting / Louis Finkelstein
The battle of Paris, strip-tease and Trotsky: some non-scenic travel notes / Thomas B. Hess
ABC art / Barbara Rose
Local history ; Specific objects / Donald Judd
Allusion and illusion in Donald Judd / Rosalind Krauss
The crystal land / Robert Smithson
New York letter: Warhol ; Art and objecthood / Michael Fried
Andy Warhol in Paris ; Joan Mitchell ; Leland Bell ; The invisible avant-garde / John Ashbery.