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The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism Book

The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism
The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism, A free-spirited wave of creative energy swept through the San Francisco art community after World War II. Challenging accepted modes of painting, Abstract Expressionists produced highly experimental works that jolted the public out of its postwar complace, The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism has a rating of 4.5 stars
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  • The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism
  • Written by author Susan Landauer
  • Published by University of California Press, March 1996
  • A free-spirited wave of creative energy swept through the San Francisco art community after World War II. Challenging accepted modes of painting, Abstract Expressionists produced highly experimental works that jolted the public out of its postwar complace
  • "This well written, fully researched, and handsomely illustrated volume gives potent new life to artists and ideas nearly lost to American art history. Susan Landauer's enlightening book will play an important role in redefining the post-World War II avan
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Foreword
Preface
Introduction
1On the Farther Shore of Abstract Expressionism
Mapping a Movement1
On the Question of a San Francisco School13
2First Tremors
The Modernist Prologue29
Douglas MacAgy and the California School of Fine Arts35
Faculty I: Bischoff, Smith, Park, and Spohn37
Faculty II: Varda, Corbett, and Diebenkorn47
Clyfford Still: Background and Early Work52
3The Rigors of Freedom
Disdain for the Thesis61
Consensus by Negation64
Devices of Dissension71
4The Forties: Variations
Clyfford Still, 1947-5087
Mark Rothko's Visits to San Francisco91
Edward Corbett, 1947-5093
Stillman, Kuhlman, Dixon, and the Sausalito Six102
Richard Diebenkorn, 1947-50116
5The Fifties: Crosscurrents and Extensions
The End of a Golden Era?123
Arrivals and Departures: Corbett, Dugmore, Briggs, McChesney, Jefferson, and Others124
Hassel Smith, 1948-60136
Frank Lobdell, 1947-62141
Richard Diebenkorn, 1950-55148
Kelly, Gechtoff, Saccaro, DeFeo, and Other Second-Generation Abstract Expressionists152
Epilogue168
Appendix I: Artist Biographies177
Appendix II: Group and Joint Exhibition History, 1940-1965195
Notes211
General Bibliography243
Selected Bibliographies for Individual Artists249
Index257


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