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Reframing Abstract Expressionism - Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s (Paperback, New edition)
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Reframing Abstract Expressionism - Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s (Paperback, New edition)
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In the wake of World War II, the paintings of Jackson Pollock, Mark
Rothko, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, and other New York
School artists participated in a culture-wide initiative to
reimagine the self. At a time when widely held beliefs about human
nature and the human condition were coming to seem to many
commentators increasingly outdated and inadequate, Abstract
Expressionism gave compelling visual form to a new subjectivity-a
new experience and idea of self. In this original and wide-ranging
study, Michael Leja argues that the interest of these artists in
tapping "primitive" and unconscious components of self aligns them
with many contemporary essayists, Hollywood filmmakers,
journalists, and popular philosophers who were turning, like the
artists, to psychology, anthropology, and philosophy in the effort
to reformulate individual identity. Taking Pollock's paintings and
their reception as a case study, Leja shows that critics located in
Pollock's abstract forms a web of metaphors-including spatial
entrapment, conflicted production, energy flow, gendered
opposition, and unconsciousness-that situated the paintings in
mainstream cultural discourses on the individual's sense of self
and identity. In this interpretative frame, the cultural and
ideological character of the art is illuminated. According to Leja,
Abstract Expressionism effectively enacted and represented the new,
conflicted, layered subjectivity, a feature that helps to account
for the support and interest it garnered from cultural and
political institutions alike.
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