... Melvin Edwards is a pioneer in the history of contemporary African American art and sculpture. This interview relates his career as a black internationalist, a pan-Africanist, and a prime witness to modernist innovations in the New York scene, from the era of abstract expressionism to the current...

... of social realism, in particular Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, whose work encouraged unity of classes and the glorification of folk roots and peasant culture. Through his extensive travels and experimentation, Johnson later became focused on abstract expressionism and explored it through the rest of his...

... the Art Students League and embraced abstract expressionism. By 1961, Télémaque had relocated to Paris, where his first paintings produced there brought him much success. Télémaque’s subsequent career, during which he took up structuralist, poststructuralist, and postmodernist modes of image making...

..., or other classifications) was not yet of interest. Rather, the aesthetic experimentalism associated with abstract expressionism enabled Amos to master abstraction in a manner that would guide her entire oeuvre. 116 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 50 May 2022 DOI 10.1215/10757163-9729176 ©...

... expressionism, a movement of gestural abstraction in which male heroes were treated as indistinguishable from their art. For Meyer Schapiro, who celebrated this practice, part of its meaning derived from artwork being handmade rather than industrially produced. In being handmade, the work can represent...

... of the postwar artists to form Spiral, an artistic alliance that rep- avant-­garde, the history of abstract expressionism resented African American artists in the March has largely expunged their contribution, instead on Washington and that sought to formulate an canonizing the work of such artists...

... the many vernaculars he used. © 2020 by Nka Publications 2020 Norman Lewis abstract expressionism Harlem Artists’ Guild Studio 35 Processional Journal of Contemporary African Art 47 November 20206 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-8719604 © 2020 by Nka Publications Lucy H. Partman M usician...

... to on its audience. any other referent. The purity of abstract expressionism as supposedly Similar themes of humor, paradox, "American" and the authenticity...

... face in chanqe in paintinq we have come to know varying forms) in having to choose between what she calls as ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM. "Ancestralism" and "Abstraction," that is, figuration...

... to conquer its audience at home, it soon became a weapon for the worldwide export of the American idea of freedom. Abstract expressionism, with its individual gesture, served politics best because it did not look political. At a time when the Soviets forced their social realism upon their new satellites...

... a gallery, but it a long time. Bearden was actually one of the best. Norman was a very nice space. was my favorite, he was so angry and so smart and he had taken part in—if you read Ann Gibson’s history of abstract CJM: Was it a storefront? What did it look like? expressionism, she includes black...

... and dark, representational and abstract) that take center stage. Of the four map paintings on view, Texas Louise (1971), in particular, unveils the instability of such relationships. Somewhere between the English lands­cape tradition and American abstract expressionism, an electric field of yellow, orange...

... philosophies and his social mated machismo ideas that stressed a formal and conscience do not necessarily contradict each other. physical virility in painting. Rosenberg said in his He sees room to read political statements in Lewis’s landmark 1952 essay “American Action Painters” abstract expressionism...

...- century abstract expressionism—New York paint- ing of august longevity. The retrospective skillfully argues a lasting commitment to consistent formal concerns...

... to the monochrome as a con- tested field and makes the wider point that all abstract art is charac- terized by the duality between essential purity and nuanced . . . pictorial space ; see Fer, Postscript, 153 54. 10 Ann Eden Gibson also describes abstract expressionism in terms of its mythic universalism...

... eate the spaces within the works. Suddenly the grandness Nour at their recent exhibition at the National Museum of of his abstract expressionism begins to take on the quality African Art at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.The of a personal photo album filled with old...

... and Art Brut to abstract expressionism, which is not seen in this form in the international context. Access to information on art move...

..., queer identity in the 1980s against the high-­machismo legacy of lime, back turned, blocking the view but represent- abstract expressionism (How to See a Work of Art in Total Dark- ing the untranslatable phenomenon of experiencing ness [Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008 oneself as a part of the world...

... not the artist. The work looks more perceptible as sensual female nudes or more beastly figures. like a sketch block showing the artist's process of thinking, exposed defiantly Perhaps the most interesting foray into Abstract Expressionism came among...

...-ground gestalt and color relationships, completely jettisoning the recognizable subject. Clearly, Blackburn's imagery is engaged with New York School Abstract Expressionism. Examination of his body of work from the late 1950s into the early 1960s reveals it to be concerned with process...