The Fate Of A Gesture: Jackson Pollock And Postwar American Art

Arts & Photography

RATCLIFF, Carter

History & Criticism

Routledge

I am indebted first to Thomas B. Hess and James Fitzsimmons, the editors of Artnews and Art International, who encouraged me to publish the essays and reviews that led, years later, to this book. I am equally grateful for the encouragement I have received from Elizabeth C. Baker, the editor of Art in America.

The Fate Of A Gesture

Explores the history of modern American painting through the career and influence of Jackson Pollock

The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Post-War American Art

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Flinging his colors onto the canvas, pouring and dripping his paints in a quintessentially American gesture, Jackson Pollock redefined the art of painting. It was the fate of Pollock's gesture to be mimicked, modified, and denied by artists of immense stature. Drawing from twenty years of experience as an art critic in New York, Carter Ratcliff maps the Manhattan art world, revisiting the world of studios, galleries and artist's bars where these personalities met and clashed. Over the story looms the monumental and tragic figure of Pollock, the measure of all who have felt compelled to challenge him.

GILBERT & GEORGE SINGI

ROSENBAUM,ROBERT

Thames&Hudson

Gilbert and George: the complete pictures, 1971-85

Exhibition catalogue for May 1 - June 27, 2010 exhibit at Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester. 172 pages. Approximately 11.5" by 11.5". Profusely illustrated throughout with color photos of the artist and his work.

Albert Paley in the 21st Century, May 1-June 27, 2010

Paley, Albert

Memorial Art Gallery

John Singer Sargent

Abbeville Press, Incorporated

Featuring more than 300 portraits made from the early 1960s until the artist's death in 1987, Andy Warhol Portraits is the first book to provide a comprehensive view of this overlooked body of work, which includes such well-known twentieth-century icons as Jackie Kennedy, Mick Jagger, Liza Minnelli, and Queen Elizabeth, as well as many paintings largely unknown even to avid Warhol followers. With contextualizing essays by longtime Warhol collaborator Tony Shafrazi and art critics Carter Ratcliff and Robert Rosenblum, Andy Warhol Portraits is a facebook of the amazing cast of characters that populated Warhol's fascinating, star-studded, and, at times, sordid world.

Andy Warhol: Portraits

Rosenblum, Robert

Individual Artists

Phaidon Press

Renowned for his vivid, larger&amp;hyphen;than&amp;hyphen;life portraits, Alex Katz is a towering figure in contemporary painting. His work can be found in institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, MoMA, LACMA, and the National Portrait Gallery.
The revised and expanded edition of Phaidon’s landmark survey is the most up&amp;hyphen;to&amp;hyphen;date overview of Katz’s prolific 50&amp;hyphen;year career. Featuring more than 300 gorgeous reproductions of key works, Alex Katz devotes ample space to the artist’s lush portraits while also including his landscapes, sculptures, and painted books. Rounding out the book’s content are writings from the artist himself; contributions from Robert Storr, Iwona Blazwick, Carter Ratcliff; and a new essay by Barry Schwabsky.

Alex Katz: Revised & expanded edition (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Schwabsky, Barry

Blazwick, Iwona

STORR, Robert

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