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Modernism's masculine subjects : Matisse, the New York school and post-painterly abstraction

Author
Brennan, Marcia.
Title
Modernism's masculine subjects : Matisse, the New York school and post-painterly abstraction / Marcia Brennan.
Format
Book
Published
Cambridge, Mass. ; London, Eng. : MIT Press, 2004.
Description
xi, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-205) and index. Water damaged.
Contents
  • A "straight theory" of bourgeois pleasure in later modernist painting
  • Still lifes and centerfolds : the negation of the feminine in Greenberg's reading of Matisse
  • Fragmented bodies and canonical nudes : painting and reading de Kooning's Woman series
  • Pollock and Krasner : touching and transcending the boundaries of abstract expressionism
  • How formalism lost its body but kept its gender : Frankenthaler, Louis, and Noland in the sixties.
Subject headings
Art--History.
Kinsey subjects
Art--20th century.
ISBN
026202571X (alk. paper)

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
709.04 B88 m6 2004
Location
Auxiliary Library Facility - Kinsey Institute