Description - Pollock and the Irascibles: The New York School by Carter Foster
Through the paintings of these 18 artists, guided by the charismatic Pollock and referred to as "The Irascibles", after a famous protest they staged against the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this is a complete view of an essential artistic style that reinterpreted the canvas as a space for individual freedom of thought and action. It was both the style of the New York School and a unique phenomenon, which characterised post-war America and that with overwhelming force, influenced Modern Art across the world. This exhibition catalogue includes more than 49 masterpieces from the Whitney Museum in New York among which Pollock's Number 27, Mahoning by Franz Kline (1956), Door to the River by Willem de Kooning (1960) and Untitled (Blue, Yellow, Green on Red) (1954) by Mark Rothko, alongside works by artists who may be less famous, but that represent their mature periods and, more generally speaking, their time. AUTHOR: Carter Foster is currently curator, and curator of drawings, at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Prior to joining the Whitney in 2005, he was curator and co-chair of the department of Prints and Drawings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. From 1996 until 2004 he was a curator in the drawing department of the Cleveland Museum of Art. He has published widely on both contemporary and old master drawings. 100 colour and 80 b/w illustrations
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