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Abstraction in Art and Nature
Nathan Cabot Hale
Dover Publications
Dover Publications
Stimulating, thought-provoking guide shows how to discover a rich new design source in the abstractions inherent in natural forms. Lines of growth and structure, water and liquid forms, weather and atmospheric patterns, luminosity, earth colors,...
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The Paintings of Joan Mitchell (Whitney Museum of American Art)
Jane Livingston
University of California Press
University of California Press
Joan Mitchell (1926-1992) was one of the few women among the first-rank Abstract Expressionist painters. She outpaced all but a handful of her male mentors and counterparts, while only Lee Krasner stands as a possible rival among her female...
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Jackson Pollock: 1912-1956 (Taschen Basic Art)
Leonhard Emmerling
Taschen
Taschen
A TRAGIC ICON OF ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM, JACKSON POLLOCK (1912-1956) TOOK INFLUENCES FROM PICASSO AND MEXICAN SURREALISM AND DEVELOPED HIS OWN WAY OF SEEING, INTERPRETING, AND EXPRESSING. THOUGH HIS NAME INEVITABLY CONJURES UP IMAGES OF THE DRIP...
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Hans Hofmann: Revised and Expanded
Sam Hunter
Rizzoli International Publications
Rizzoli International Publications
Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus-not imitation....From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life-all movement and rhythm-time and light, color and mood-in short, all reality in Form and Thought." -Hans...
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The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism
Susan Landauer
University of California Press
University of California Press
A free-spirited wave of creative energy swept through the San Francisco art community after World War II. Challenging accepted modes of painting, Abstract Expressionists produced highly experimental works that jolted the public out of its postwar...
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Elmer Bischoff: The Ethics of Paint
Susan Landauer
University of California Press
University of California Press
Elmer Bischoff (1916-1991) is generally regarded as one of the leaders among the artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who, after contributing to the local emergence of Abstract Expressionism during the 1940s and 50s, shifted the terms of their...
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