Women Artists on the Leading Edge Visual Arts of by Joan M. Marter HARDBACK

Name: Women Artists on the Leading Edge Visual Arts of by Joan M. Marter HARDBACK
Brand: Rutgers University Press

Rutgers University Press

Women Artists on the Leading EdgeVisual Arts at Douglass College\nAuthor(s): Joan M. Marter\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9780813593340, 978-0813593340\nSynopsis\nHow do students develop a personal style from their instruction in a visual arts program? Women Artists on the Leading Edge explores this question as it describes the emergence of an important group of young women artists from an innovative post-war visual arts program at Douglass College.\n\nThe women who studied with avant-garde artists at Douglas were among the first students in the nation to be introduced to performance art, conceptual art, Fluxus, and Pop Art. These young artists were among the first to experience new approaches to artmaking that rejected the predominant style of the 1950s: Abstract Expressionism. The New Art espoused by faculty including Robert Watts, Allan Kaprow, Roy Lichtenstein, Geoffrey Hendricks, and others advo.