The market certainly has no desire to imagine that it, too, has its religion. The new sublime reinvented the primitive in its own terms, as a positive value, not as the work of grinning savages. Still, it could not dispense with the category of the primitive. It kept a layered, gendered unconscious that too now seems a myth. The incomplete critique of gender and domination no doubt ties in with the macho side of individual artists.
Books start to count up neglected women and African-American artists.
I hope that the Krasner retrospective will change that history. The rhythms of her art never subsided and never stopped influencing their generation. I believe that another woman, Janet Sobel, invented the relationship of drip painting to intimacy that I have found so important. Still, the criticism has a valid point. Everyone knows by now how harshly Pollock's career dominated Krasner's.