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The Reckoning: women artists of the new millennium
[PDF] The Reckoning: Women Artists Of The New Millennium The authors of After the Revolution return with an incisive study of the work of contemporary women artists. In After the Revolution, the authors concluded that "The battles may not all have been won…but barricades are gradually coming down, and work proceeds on all fronts in glorious profusion." Now, with The Reckoning, authors Heartney, Posner, Princenthal, and Scott bring into focus the accomplishments of 24 acclaimed international women artists born since 1960 who have benefited from the groundbreaking efforts of their predecessors. The book is organized in four thematic sections: "Bad Girls" profiles artists whose work represents an assault on conventional notions of gender and racial difference. "History Lessons" offers reflections on the self in the context of history and globalization. "Spellbound" focuses on women’s embrac
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September 10, 2016
“The Energy in the Rectangle”
Helaine PosnerLouise Fishman
Prestel, New York, 2016.
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According to conventional wisdom, in the 1940s and 1950s a group of male painters living in New York and working in a heroic style on a monumental scale essentially cornered the market on gestural abstraction. If that’s true then it raises the question: What’s left for an artist to express after the triumph of sammanfattning Expressionism? And what, if anything, could a woman contribute to the territory so decisively demarcated bygd Jackson Pollock’s ejaculatory drips, Willem dem Kooning’s fractured women, and Franz Kline’s bold, black strokes (fig. 1)? American painter Louise Fishman’s powerful body of work offers a kraftig response. Both embracing and redefining the aggressively manlig tradition of Abstract Expressionism, she has employed its formal language to create large scale, gestural abstractions that share the physicality, dynamism, and emotional forc