Reconstructing modernism : art in New York, Paris, and Montreal, 1945-1964 / edited by Serge Guilbaut.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guilbaut, Serge.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Art)--New York (State)--New York--Congresses.

Modernism (Art).

Art, Modern--20th century--Congresses.

Art, Modern.

Modernism (Art)--France--Paris--Congresses.

Art, French--France--Paris--20th century--Congresses.

Art, French.

France--Paris.

Modernism (Art)--Québec (Province)--Montréal--Congresses.

New York (State)--New York.

Québec--Montréal.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvii, 418 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Edition:

First MIT Press paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1992.

Summary:

These essays reopen the case of postwar abstraction.

Contents:

Introduction / Serge Guilbaut

Abstraction chaude in Paris in the 1950s / John-Franklin Koenig

Hot painting : the inevitable fate of the image / Jean Baudrillard

Postwar painting games : the rough and the slick / Serge Guilbaut

Cold war constructivism / Benjamin H.D. Buchloh

Marginality as a political stance : the Canadian painter Jean McEwen / Constance Naubert-Riser

New York as seen from Montreal by Paul-Emile Borduas and the Automatists, 1943-1953 / Francois-Marc Gagnon

Greenberg's Matisse and the problem of avant-garde hedonism / John O'Brian

Jackson Pollock's abstraction / Timothy J. Clark

The monochrome and the blank canvas / Thierry de Duve

Saturday disasters : trace and reference in early Warhol / Thomas Crow

The politics of consumption : the Screen Actor's Guild, Ronald Reagan, and the Hollywood red scare / Lary May

Cultural cartography : American designs at the 1964 Venice Biennale / Laurie J. Monahan.

Notes:

Papers from the Hot Paint for Cold War symposium, held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Sept. 1986.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0262570920

9780262570923

OCLC:

33142638