Bibliograph

American masters 1940-1980

Type

Label

American masters 1940-1980

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.governmentPublication

federal national government publication

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

American masters 1940-1980

Nature of contents

bibliography

Summary

The National Gallery of Australia has one of the greatest collections of American art outside the United States. The Gallery's exceptional collection from the mid-twentieth century includes masterworks by artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Louise Bourgeois, Lee Krasner and Andy Warhol, among many others. American Masters features both well-known paintings, such as Pollock's Blue poles 1952, as well as many works rarely seen by Australian audiences, revealing the depth of a collection that has never before been presented as a whole

Table Of Contents

Director's foreword -- Sponsor's foreword -- Our ambitions were high... / Lucina Ward -- Where do you stand? / James Lawrence -- Pop art and its reception / Anthony E. Grudin -- Precursors: New York School -- Colour-field and Post-painterly abstraction -- Neo-Dada, Pop and multiples -- Minimalism -- Conceptual art -- Anti-form: From Soft sculpture to Land art -- Figuration: Photorealism and Funk -- Light -- Video works

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

American masters nineteen forty-nineteen eighty

Contributor

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