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An Audience of Artists - Dada, Neo-Dada, and the Emergence of Abstract Expressionism (Hardcover, New)
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An Audience of Artists - Dada, Neo-Dada, and the Emergence of Abstract Expressionism (Hardcover, New)
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The term Neo-Dada surfaced in New York in the late 1950s and was
used to characterize young artists like Robert Rauschenberg and
Jasper Johns whose art appeared at odds with the serious emotional
and painterly interests of the then-dominant movement, abstract
expressionism. Neo-Dada quickly became the word of choice in the
early 1960s to designate experimental art, including assemblage,
performance, pop art, and nascent forms of minimal and conceptual
art. "An Audience of Artists" turns this time line for the postwar
New York art world on its head, presenting a new pedigree for these
artistic movements. Drawing on an array of previously unpublished
material, Catherine Craft reveals that Neo-Dada, far from being a
reaction to abstract expressionism, actually originated at the
heart of that movement's concerns about viewers, originality, and
artists' debts to the past and one another. Furthermore, she
argues, the original Dada movement was not incompatible with
abstract expressionism. In fact, Dada provided a vital historical
reference for artists and critics seeking to come to terms with the
radical departure from tradition that abstract expressionism seemed
to represent. Tracing the activities of artists such as Robert
Motherwell, Barnett Newman, and Jackson Pollock alongside Marcel
Duchamp's renewed embrace of Dada in the late 1940s, Craft composes
a subtle exploration of the challenges facing artists trying to
work in the wake of a destructive world war and the paintings,
objects, writings, and installations that resulted from their
efforts. Providing the first examination of the roots of the
Neo-Dada phenomenon, this groundbreaking study significantly
reassesses the histories of these three movements and offers new
ways of understanding the broader issues related to the development
of modern art.
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