Apr 26, 2008
New York cool: A transitional generation is given its due
“The evolution of American art from 1955 to 1965 is reduced to a simplified cliche: the big, sloppy celebration of the self in Abstract Expressionism leads by exhaustion and reaction-formation to the clinical impersonality of Minimalism and Pop.”
NEW YORK : In the art world, geography is destiny. The words "10th Street" are synonymous with gestural abstraction, just as the East Village is shorthand for '80s neo-Expressionism. Eventually rents rise, ... via International Herald Tribune
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