Modernism's masculine subjects
Subtitle: Matisse, the New York school, and post-painterly abstraction
By: Marcia Brennan.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780262025713
Subjects: Modernism (Art); Formalism (Art); New York school of art; Gender identity in art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-205) and index.
Table of contents: title: A "straight theory" of bourgeois pleasure in later modernist painting; title: Still lifes and centerfolds : the negation of the feminine in Greenberg's reading of Matisse; title: Fragmented bodies and canonical nudes : painting and reading de Kooning's Woman series; title: Pollock and Krasner : touching and transcending the boundaries of abstract expressionism; title: How formalism lost its body but kept its gender : Frankenthaler, Louis, and Noland in the sixties.