| ISBN |
9780642334770 |
| Author |
National Gallery of Australia |
| Title |
American masters 1940-1980. |
| Cover title |
American masters |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
[Canberra, A.C.T.] : National Gallery of Australia, 2018. |
| ©2018. |
| Description |
256 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cm. |
| Note |
Cover title: American masters. |
| Produced on occasion of the exhibition American Masters 1940 - 1980, National Gallery of Australia, 24 August - 11 November 2018. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 --Notes --Contributors --Acknowledgments --Index. |
| 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. |
| Subjects |
National Gallery of Australia -- Exhibitions |
| Art, American -- 20th century -- United States -- Exhibitions |
| Painting, Abstract -- United States -- Exhibitions |
| Abstract expressionism -- United States -- Exhibitions |
| Art, American |
| Painting, Abstract |
| Other Authors &/or Associated Persons |
Ward, Lucina (author.) |
| Lawrence, James (James Alexander) (author.) |
| Grudin, Anthony E. (author.) |
| Call number |
2018.601 |
