Abstraction, Gesture, Ecriture: Paintings from the Daros Collection

by Bois, Yve-Alain; Juncosa, Enrique; Krauss, Rosalind E.; Marshall, Richard D.; Richardson, Brenda

• ISBN13: 9783908247999
• ISBN10: 3908247993
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

American Abstract Expressionism is not only one of the most fascinating but also one of the most influential periods in contemporary art after the 1940's Abstraction, Gesture, Ecriture illustrates -- in the essays of well-known art critics as well as in the paintings selected from the Daros Collection -- the different abstractions and gestures in contemporary American art. It focuses on American artists who conceived of a way of painting which began with the scrawl-like gestures of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Joan Mitchell. Then the scriptural gesture, developed out of handwriting, is examined in an extraordinary group of work that spans Cy Twombly's whole career. Brice Marden's alternately fluid and tensile linear abstractions and Robert Rymans intensive occupation with the stroke of a brush are discussed as well as Andy Warhol's answers to Abstract Expressionism in his Oxidation and Shadow Paintings in 1978. This particular movement in Abstract Expressionism has provoked an on-going dialogue in painting. Abstraction, Gesture, Ecriture covers this o