NEW YORK COOL Painting Sculpture NYU Art Catalog 2009 de Kooning Frank Stella +

Description: Title: New York Cool: Painting and Sculpture from the NYU Art Collection Author: Pepe Karmel Publisher: Grey Art Gallery NYU Description:Oversize paperback from NYU Grey Art Gallery that explores art of the late 1950s early 60's. Book is based upon the Exhibition which travelled from NYU to Iowa; Penn State; Bowdoin; and Hunter in Chattanooga from 2008-2009. New York Cool takes a fresh look at an era in American art that has too long been viewed as a mere parenthesis between Abstract Expressionism on the one hand and Minimalism and Pop Art on the other. In contrast, this book demonstrates the richness and diversity of art made in New York during these vital years. Painters discovered new possibilities within Abstract Expressionism’s celebration of the self. Some created visual diaries of life in downtown New York; others employed stains, drips, or obsessive brushwork to evoke visions of infinite space. Still others reacted against the devalued humanism of the period by turning to cool, hard-edged images of the figure or abandoned the expressionism of gestural abstraction for the deliberately impersonal geometry of the grid. Sculptors also set aside purely formal problems to explore spiritual, social, and sexual experience.In New York Cool, Pepe Karmel proposes a new interpretation of this key decade. Additional essays by Lynn Gumpert, Alexandra Lange, and Lytle Shaw explore the history of the NYU Art Collection, the role of artists in the new urban activism of the era, and the influence of poet-critic-curator Frank O’Hara. Illustrating over 70 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints by 35 artists, New York Cool features the impressive holdings of the New York University Art Collection. About the NYU Cool Exhibition from the press releaseNew York Cool proposes a fresh vision of this eclectic period. Organized in groupings that explore varied themes—such as “Women, Men, and Other Beasts,” “Primal Landscapes,” “An Art of Memory,” and “Vicissitudes of the Grid”—the show features key works by artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Helen Frankenthaler, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Louise Nevelson, Philip Pearlstein, and Robert Rauschenberg. Some paintings and sculptures prefigure the major styles of the mid-1960s and later: a portrait by Alex Katz looks forward to Pop Art; a target painting by Kenneth Noland to Minimalism; and an abstraction by Yayoi Kusama to Post-Minimalism. New York Cool, as a whole, demonstrates how a new kind of personal sensibility developed in tandem with a seemingly impersonal geometric style. Allusive instead of expressive, understated rather than declarative, it sets the stage for what art critic and former NYU professor Irving Sandler has dubbed the new “CoolArt” of the 1960s. “For too long, the later 1950s and the early ’60s have been seen as a mere parenthesis between Abstract Expressionism, on one hand, and Minimalism and Pop Art, on the other,” says Pepe Karmel, the exhibition’s curator. “What we’re going to show is that most of the key innovations of the postmodern era actually emerged in this in-between period. You get the new diaristic collages of Robert Rauschenberg and the poem-paintings of Norman Bluhm and Frank O’Hara. You get the radical simplification of the grid in the work of Agnes Martin and Frank Stella. You get the anti-form randomness of Yayoi Kusama’s infinity nets. You get the sexual imagery of Louise Bourgeois and the hidden religious symbolism of Louise Nevelson. Everyone thinks these were the years when Abstract Expressionism was sinking into senility. Actually, it was a period when a thousand new ideas were being born. Everything that comes afterwards—in the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s—is already there in the late ’50s and early ’60s.” The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue. In his essay “An InBetween Era,” Pepe Karmel traces the artistic and cultural shifts that led from the “hot” art of the early 1950s to the “cool” art of the 1960s. Lynn Gumpert, Director of the Grey Art Gallery, contributes a history of the NYU Art Collection. Lytle Shaw, Assistant Professor of English at NYU, analyzes the social ties that bound together the artistic and literary circle surrounding the poet and curator Frank O’Hara. Alexandra Lange, a journalist and critic specializing in architecture and design, discusses the ways that the Greenwich Village community responded to the threat of urban development. Condition:Book is fine. See all photos. 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