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Prehistoric Pictures and American Modernism

Abstract Art at MoMA 1937-1939
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256 Seiten
Englisch
Bloomsbury Academicerschienen am19.10.2023
In April 1937, the Museum of Modern Art in New York hosted an exhibition that served as a catalyst for the appropriation of prehistoric rock art in postwar abstract painting. With the title "Prehistoric Rock Pictures in Europe and Africa", it displayed a range of copies from the influential collection of the German ethnologist Leo Frobenius.Largely disregarded in modern American art history up until now, this book highlights the importance of this exhibition to artists such as Josef Albers, Adolph Gottlieb, David Smith, and The American Abstract Artists group, who sought inspiration from the prehistoric images´ primordial creativity. With a transnational scope, this book reveals new facts about the connections between Paris and New York, and the importance of communication and collaboration between them for these artists. In doing so, Seibert shows that this debate was about more than just legitimizing abstract art forms from the past, but about recognizing an autonomous American abstract art.Presenting unseen archival material, letters, and exhibition documentation, Prehistoric Pictures and American Modernism offers a new reading of the development of modern American abstraction, and will hold an important place in the historiography of the movement, its global traditions, and its legacy.mehr
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KlappentextIn April 1937, the Museum of Modern Art in New York hosted an exhibition that served as a catalyst for the appropriation of prehistoric rock art in postwar abstract painting. With the title "Prehistoric Rock Pictures in Europe and Africa", it displayed a range of copies from the influential collection of the German ethnologist Leo Frobenius.Largely disregarded in modern American art history up until now, this book highlights the importance of this exhibition to artists such as Josef Albers, Adolph Gottlieb, David Smith, and The American Abstract Artists group, who sought inspiration from the prehistoric images´ primordial creativity. With a transnational scope, this book reveals new facts about the connections between Paris and New York, and the importance of communication and collaboration between them for these artists. In doing so, Seibert shows that this debate was about more than just legitimizing abstract art forms from the past, but about recognizing an autonomous American abstract art.Presenting unseen archival material, letters, and exhibition documentation, Prehistoric Pictures and American Modernism offers a new reading of the development of modern American abstraction, and will hold an important place in the historiography of the movement, its global traditions, and its legacy.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-350-18524-1
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
FormatGenäht
Erscheinungsjahr2023
Erscheinungsdatum19.10.2023
Seiten256 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 156 mm, Höhe 234 mm, Dicke 25 mm
Gewicht454 g
Artikel-Nr.58935659
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part One: Introduction1 Preface2 Prehistory as a Modern Idea in Europe and Primitivism as intertwined concepts (1900-1940)Part Two: Prehistoric Artifacts, Prints, Painted Copies and the Genesis of Modern Art in New York (1937)3 Alfred Barr´s View of Prehistory and Modernism as Shown at MoMA4 Barr`s exhibition concept: Prehistoric Avant-Garde and Lala Eve Rivol´s Federal Art Project 5 Leo Frobenius´s Objectives, His Collection in Western debates-and Henry Moore6 The Making of the MoMA Exhibition Prehistoric Rock Pictures in Europe and Africa (28 April-30 May, 1937) Part Three: The Art of Copying the Past-in Transatlantic Dialogue7 Copies and Copyists: Pictorial Heritage at the Museum of Modern Art8 Copying for the Index of American Design (1935-42) Part Four: Modern American Abstract Art and their Re-appropriation of Prehistoric Rock Paintings9 The Founding of the American Abstract Artists (1936) and their Appropriation of Prehistoric Rock Paintings (1937-40)10 Bridging Time and Space:Transcontinental AAA Networks in the Interwar Period 11 The Influence of (prehistoric) Artistic Concepts from Mexico on the American Abstract Artists12 Prehistorical Modernists: Gottlieb, Lassaw, Schanker, Smith Part Five: Conclusion13 The Modernity of Prehistory in the Thirties in Paris and New YorkAppendix I and IIBibliography Indexmehr

Autor

Elke Seibert is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Cultural Department Canton Nidwalden, Switzerland, specialising in the interdisciplinary study of reception processes in contemporary and fine art from the 18th to the 20th century.
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