Three Women Artists by Amy Von Lintel
Offering a fresh perspective on the influence of the American southwest—and particularly West Texas—on the New York art world of the 1950s, Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West aims to establish the significance of itinerant teaching and western travel as a strategic choice for women artists associated with traditional centers of artistic authority and population in the eastern United States.The book is focused on three artists: Elaine de Kooning, Jeanne Reynal, and Louise Nevelson. In their travels to and work in the High Plains, they were inspired to innovate their abstract styles and introduce new critical dialogues through their work. These women traveled west for the same reason artists often travel to new places: they found paid work, markets, patrons, and friends. This Middle American context offers us a “decentered” modernism—demanding that we look beyond our received truths about Abstract Expressionism.
Authors Amy Von Lintel and Bonnie Roos demonstrate that these women’s New York avant-garde, abstract styles were attractive to Panhandle-area ranchers, bankers, and aspiring art students. Perhaps as importantly, they show that these artists’ aesthetics evolved in light of their regional experiences. Offering their work as a supplement and corrective to the frameworks of patriarchal, East Coast ethnocentrism, Von Lintel and Roos make the case for Texas as influential in the national art scene of the latter half of the twentieth century.
AMY VON LINTEL is the Doris Alexander Endowed Professor of Fine Arts at West Texas A&M University. She is the author of Georgia O'Keeffe: Watercolors and coauthor of Robert Smithson in Texas. She resides in Amarillo, Texas.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781648430152 |
| ISBN 10 | 1648430155 |
| Title | Three Women Artists |
| Author | Amy Von Lintel |
| Series | American Wests Sponsored By West Texas A And M University |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Texas A & M University Press |
| Year published | 2022-08-30 |
| Number of pages | 341 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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