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Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism
Erika Doss

University Of Chicago Press, 1995

In this acclaimed revisionist study, Erika Doss chronicles an historic cultural change in American art from the dominance of regionalism in the 1930s to abstract expressionism in the 1940s. She centers her study on Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock, Benton's foremost student in the early thirties, charting Pollock's early imitation of Benton's style before his radical move to abstraction. By situating painting within the evolving ...

expressionism

Egon Schiele: Landscapes
Black Angel
Jackson Pollock
Willem De Kooning: Reflections in the Studio
Mark Rothko: A Biography

regionalism

Architectural Regionalism: Collected Writings on Place, Identity, ...
The Political Economy of Regionalism
Casa California: Spanish-Style Houses From Santa Barbara to San ...
Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes (New ...
American Art Deco: Modernistic Architecture and Regionalism

The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies ...
Collected Poems, 1909-1962 (The Centenary Edition)
Modernism Rediscovered
Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture, and Politics in Weimar ...
Eichler: Modernism Rebuilds the American Dream

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