The American Action Painters

Rosenberg, H. (1952). The American Action Painters. The American Action Painters, 51(8), 22-23.

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Year

1952

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Primes

• Abstraction in Art
  • A work can be abstract without being minimalist (abstract expressionism, as documented by Sandler (1970) and Rosenberg (1952), uses complex, non-minimalist compositions of color and gesture) and can be minimalist without being abstract (a minimalist representational sculpture depicting simplified human figures).

    This sourceCoins 'action painting' — the canvas as 'an arena in which to act'; foundational for gestural abstract expressionism (bibliography).

Mechanisms

• Gestural Mark Abstraction
  • Its cautionary anchor is action painting, the term coined for a mid-century American gesture whose marks were read as records of the artist's movement.

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