FINE209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Autonomism, Clement Greenberg, Analytical Psychology
1 Feb 2015
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Artists after 1943 are still in copyright, hard to find good quality images. Masculine identity, the readymade, connect them all together. How to combine critical thinking, without stating information about the artist. Compare greenberg"s analysis of pollock to harold rosenberg"s interpretation. Group of artists in america, working in 1940"s + 1950", also referred to as new york school, because they were in nyc for most of the work. Abstraction was originally used for expressionism after wwii. Didn"t associate themselves with one another, but were connected- they couldn"t agree on anything. Individuality, innate stubbornness, symbolize an act of deviance of mass culture of post war period that was becoming homogenous. American painting established itself as its own painting, opinions after all the horrible stuff that happened after the war. Europe in america, but wanting to have own identities. Rising anxiety of the war, pressures from the depression (economic collapse)
