New York School by Irving Sandler - 9780367002763

Taylor & Francis

This book unveils gestural or painterly or \""unfinished\"" manner of painting in the vein of de Kooning, Hofmann, Kline, and Guston\u2014the second generation of the New York School\u2014and the sculpture related to it that distinguished the image of fifties art as a whole. > FROM 1947 TO 1951, more than a dozen Abstract Expressionists achieved \""breakthroughs\"" to independent styles. 1 During the following years, these painters, the first generation of the New York School, received growing recognition nationally and globally, to the extent that American vanguard art came to be considered the primary source of creative ideas and energies in the world, and a few masters, notably Pollock, de Kooning, and Rothko, were elevated to art history's pantheon. Younger artists who entered their circle in the early fifties-the early wave of the second generation-such as Larry Rivers, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Allan Kaprow, Joan Mitchell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Richard Stankiewicz ""