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100 1 $aPerl, Jed.
245 10 $aNew art city :$bManhattan at mid-century /$cJed Perl.
250 $a1st Vintage books ed.
260 $aNew York :$bVintage Books,$c2007.
300 $a641 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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500 $aOriginally published: Knopf, 2005.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 559-614) and index.
505 0 $aThe painter and the city -- Climate of New York -- 1. Manhattan geography -- 2. The dialectical imagination -- 3. The philosopher king -- 4. "I condemn and affirm, say no and say yes" -- Some versions of Romanticism -- 5. Heroes -- 6. A splendid modesty -- 7. Pastorals -- A grand collage -- 8. Joseph Cornell in Manhattan -- 9. Welders and others -- 10. From readymades to cutouts -- The artist and the public -- 11. Going to the modern -- 12. Making history -- Pop theater -- Teachers -- The empirical imagination -- 15. Beginning again -- 16. Maine, Marfa, and Manhattan.
520 $aA fascinating, panoramic exploration of art and culture in mid-twentieth-century New York City from one of our most important and influential art critics. New Art Citytakes us from the solitude of the artists studio to the uproarious bars where artists gathered, from the ramshackle bohemian neighborhoods of downtown Manhattan to the Midtown streets where steel-and-glass skyscrapers were rising and art galleries were proliferating. We encounter a kaleidoscopic range of artists. There are legendary figuresJackson Pollock, David Smith, Willem de Kooning, Joseph Cornell, Andy Warhol, and Donald Juddas well as still undervalued ones, such as the galvanic teacher Hans Hofmann, the lyric expressionist Joan Mitchell, the adventuresome realist Fairfield Porter, and the eccentric thinker John Graham. We encounter, too, the writers, critics, patrons, and hangers-on who rounded out the artists world. Jed Perl helps us see what the artists were creating and understand how they confronted an exploding art audience. And he makes clear how the economic boom of the late 1950s and the increasingly enthusiastic response to Abstract Expressionism ushered in the rapacious art world of the 1960s and the theatricality of Pop Art. Artists drew strength from the dizzying onslaught of Manhattan, and produced a tidal wave of new forms. These included Hofmanns brazen flourishes of color; Pollocks quicksilver skeins of paint unfurling panoramic arabesques; and the crushed, jagged, turning-back-on-itself calligraphy of de Koonings gnomic alphabets. And there was much more: Burgoyne Dillers levitating rectangles; Nell Blaines explosive renderings of quotidian scenes; Ellsworth Kellys extraordinary simplifications, suggesting sails or semaphores. A brilliant tapestry of social history, biographical portraiture, and criticism, New Art Cityilluminates a revolutionary, unprecedented time and place in American culture.
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