American masters: the voice and the myth.
By: Photographed by Hans Namuth.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Painters -- United States; Painting, American -- 20th century
Description: This book is about "eight American artists, each of whom stands for certain aspects of American art and tradition. The book's underlining - and hitherto unexamined - theme between an artist's work - his "voice" and its reception by the public, which tends to comprehend the artist and his work as a "myth," and so provides itself with a special armature whereby the artist's image and body of work become stabilized and accessible. "-- BOOK JACKET excerpt.
Notes: "A Ridge Press book."
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Hopper's voice.; title: Davis: colonial cubism.; title: Pollock's myth.; title: De Kooning: notes toward a figure.; title: Rothko: the tragic and the transcendental.; title: Rauschenberg: the sixties.; title: Wyeth: outsider on the right.; title: Cornell: outsider on the left.; title: Bibliography (p. 285-286)