Alison Rowley

Helen Frankenthaler (eBook, PDF)

Painting History, Writing Painting

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This extraordinary examination of the work of 'colour field' painter Helen Frankenthaler overturns assumptions about the artist, whose work has been burdened by its label as 'the bridge between Pollock and what was possible'. Trained as a painter, Alison Rowley brings a keen eye to Frankenthaler's paintings, returning to the fore the artist's debt not only to Jackson Pollock but also to Cezanne, and speculating for the first time as to her artistic responses to wider political events, in particular the Rosenberg trial. Making a fascinating case, too, for the connections between the 'breakthrough' work 'Mountains and Sea' and Lily Briscoe's painting in Virginia Woolf's novel 'To the Lighthouse', this beautifully written book provides crucial new insights into Frankenthaler's practice, as a painter who is also a woman.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857713209
• Artikelnr.: 39140663

Autorenporträt

Alison Rowley has held academic positions at the Universities of Leeds, Ulster and Huddersfield, UK. She has published on the work of Chantal Akerman, Trinh T. Minh-Ha, and Martha Rosler.