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An audience of artists Dada, Neo-Dada, and the emergence of abstract expressionism /

"The term Neo-Dada surfaced in New York in the late 1950s and was used to characterize young artists like Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns whose art appeared at odds with the serious emotional and painterly interests of the then-dominant movement, Abstract Expressionism. Neo-Dada quickly be...

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Main Author: Craft, Catherine.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2012]
Physical Description: x, 307 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
Subjects:
Duchamp, Marcel, -- 1887-1968.
Motherwell, Robert.
Pollock, Jackson, -- 1912-1956.
Newman, Barnett, -- 1905-1970.
Rauschenberg, Robert, -- 1925-2008.
Twombly, Cy, -- 1928-2011.
Abstract expressionism -- New York (State) -- New York.
Dadaism -- New York (State) -- New York.
Pop art -- New York (State) -- New York.
Art, American -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Past time. Marcel Duchamp's audience of artists ; Expressions of Dadaism
  • Robert Motherwell and The Dada painters and poets. Layers ; A clearer image
  • The Dada strain. An anti-Dada attitude ; Nothing really new ; Robert Motherwell : discovery and invention ; Jackson Pollock : deny, ignore, destroy ; Barnett Newman : the moment of communion
  • The neo-Dadaists. Fellow painters ; Standards and measures ; The final end of art
  • Marcel Duchamp and the Dada spirit. Dada's daddy ; Wayward
  • Conclusion : Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly at the Stable Gallery.

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