Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism

by Erika Doss

Book Overview

In this acclaimed revisionist study, Erika Doss chronicles an historic cultural change in American art from the dominance of regionalism in the 1930s to abstract expressionism in the 1940s. She centers her study on Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock, Benton's foremost student in the early thirties, charting Pollock's early imitation of Benton's style before his radical move to abstraction. By situating painting within the evolving sociopolitical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226159434
• ISBN13: 9780226159430
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"