The great graphic boom
Subtitle: Amerikansk grafikk 1960-1990
By: [kuratorer/redaktører, Øystein Ustvedt, Corinna Höper]
Contributors: Nasjonalmuseet (Norway); Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Publisher: Nasjonalmuseet
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Oslo
Language: nor
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9788281541207; 9783954982875
Subjects: American Prints; Exhibitions
Description: The decades following the Second World War were highly dramatic ones in the United States. But the cultural scene of the era flourished and showed an originality that would reverberate throughout the world, including Norway. The new exhibition at the National Museum focuses on a little-known aspect of this breakthrough: the great interest in printmaking that emerged around 1960. Many artists began to shift away from the expressionism of the New York school. Collaborations with various workshops and professional printers became important. Pop art made use of the era's popular culture and consumer goods, while minimalism reduced everything to a system of abstract, repetitive shapes. Works by twenty-three artists will be on display in four rooms. Barnett Newman's major Cantos series (1964) and Agnes Martin's On a Clear Day (1973) are important touchstones, as are Robert Rauschenberg's use of found visual material and Jasper Johns. Other highlights: Helen Frankenthaler and Donald Judd, Roy Lichtenstein's Brushstroke (1965), and Andy Warhol's portraits of celebrities and his series of Campbell's soup cans. Exhibition: Nasjonalmuseet Oslo, Norway (3 March 2017-28 May 2017).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, March 3-May 28, 2017; and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, July 14-November 5, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in Norwegian and English.