Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics; Author: Gibson, Ann Eden; Hardback; Book

Author: Gibson, Ann Eden
Hardback; Book; 132 B&w Illustrations, 59 Colour Plates
282 pages
Published: September 1997
Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300063393

The Abstract Expressionist movement has long been bound up in the careers and lifestyles of about twelve white male artists who exhibited in New York in the 1940s. In this book Ann Eden Gibson reconsiders the history of the movement by investigating other artists -- people of color, women, and gays and lesbians -- whose versions of abstraction have been largely ignored until now.Abstract Expressionism has long been bound up with the careers and lifestyles of the white male artists who exhibited in New York in the 1940s. This text reconsiders the history of the movement by investigating other largely ignored artists - people of colour, women, and gays and lesbians.