Helen Frankenthaler: Painting History, Writing Painting (New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts)
Publisher: I. B. Tauris; I.B. Tauris; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 22, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781845115180
Subjects: Abstract Expressionism; Individual artists; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Painting & paintings; Art; Art & Art Instruction; English; USA; Design - General; Art / Design / General
Description: This extraordinary examination of the work of 'colour field' painter Helen Frankenthaler overturns assumptions about the artist, whose work has been burdened by its label as 'the bridge between Pollock and what was possible'. Trained as a painter, Alison Rowley brings a keen eye to Frankenthaler's paintings, returning to the fore the artist's debt not only to Jackson Pollock but also to Cezanne, and speculating for the first time as to her artistic responses to wider political events, in particular the Rosenberg trial. Making a fascinating case, too, for the connections between the 'breakthrou.