Artist as Author

Action and Intent in Late-Modernist American Painting

Christa Noel Robbins

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University of Chicago Press
29 June 2021

Art Treatments & Subjects

With Artist as Author, Christa Noel Robbins provides the first extended study of authorship in mid-20th century abstract painting in the US. Taking a close look at this influential period of art history, Robbins describes how artists and critics used the medium of painting to advance their own claims about the role that they believed authorship should play in dictating the value, significance, and social impact of the art object. Robbins tracks the subject across two definitive periods: the “New York School” as it was consolidated in the 1950s and “Post Painterly Abstraction” in the 1960s. Through many deep dives into key artist archives, Robbins brings to the page the minds and voices of painters Arshile Gorky, Jack Tworkov, Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, Sam Gilliam, and Agnes Martin along with those of critics such as Harold Rosenberg and Rosalind Krauss. While these are all important characters in the polemical histories of American modernism, this is the first time they are placed together in a single study and treated with equal measure, as peers participating in the shared late modernist moment.

By: Christa Noel Robbins
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 853g
ISBN: 9780226752952
ISBN 10: 022675295X
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 29 June 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction. The Artist as Author Part I Chapter One. The Act-Painting Chapter Two. The Expressive Fallacy Chapter Three. Rhetoric of Motives Part II Chapter Four. Self-Discipline Chapter Five. Event as Painting Chapter Six. Conclusion: Gridlocked Acknowledgments Notes Select Bibliography Index

Christa Noel Robbins is associate professor of art history at the University of Virginia. Her essays and reviews have been published in a variety of outlets, including Art in America, Oxford Art Journal, Art History, and the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and she was the advisory editor of North American modernism for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism.

Reviews for Artist as Author: Action and Intent in Late-Modernist American Painting

In this elegant book, Robbins makes a serious intervention in the field of post-war American art, paying careful attention both to abstract painting as it was conceived originally and as it continues to be written about today. Walking readers through the formation of a small group of key painters, she reveals various views among artists and critics on issues of authorship, agency, and the role of the painterly gesture. --Jo Applin, author of Lee Lozano: Not Working