Action/abstraction
Subtitle: Pollock, de Kooning, and American art, 1940-1976
By: edited by Norman L. Kleeblatt ; cultural timeline by Maurice Berger ; essays by Debra Bricker Balken ... [et al.].
Contributors: Kleeblatt, Norman L.; Berger, Maurice, 1956-; Balken, Debra Bricker.; Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.); St. Louis Art Museum.; Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
Publisher: Jewish Museum under the auspices of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America; Yale University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York; New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780300122152; 9780300139204
Subjects: Greenberg, Clement, -- 1909-1994; Rosenberg, Harold, -- 1906-1978; Abstract expressionism -- United States -- Exhibitions; Art, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions; Art criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Exhibitions
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Jewish Museum, New York, May 4-Sept. 21, 2008; Saint Louis Art Museum, Oct. 19, 2008-Jan. 11, 2009; and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., Feb. 13-May 31, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-313) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Action, abstraction, reaction / Norman L. Kleeblatt; title: Abstract expressionism : a cultural timeline, 1940-1976 / Maurice Berger; title: Plates; title: Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg : convergences and divergences / Irving Sandler; title: Greenberg, Rosenberg, and postwar American art / Norman L. Kleeblatt; title: Our "modern sensibility" / Caroline A. Jones; title: Harold Rosenberg and the American action painters / Debra Bricker Balken; title: Scupltors and critics, arenas and complaints / Douglas Dreishpoon; title: Abstraction and representation : a brief history / Charlotte Eyerman; title: "That oldtime Jewish sect called American art criticism" / Mark Godfrey; title: Intellectuals after modernism / Morris Dickstein.