Full Description
This extraordinary examination of the work of 'colour field' painter Helen Frankenthaler overturns assumptions about the artist, whose work has been burdened by its label as 'the bridge between Pollock and what was possible'. Trained as a painter, Alison Rowley brings a keen eye to Frankenthaler's paintings, returning to the fore the artist's debt not only to Jackson Pollock but also to Cezanne, and speculating for the first time as to her artistic responses to wider political events, in particular the Rosenberg trial. Making a fascinating case, too, for the connections between the 'breakthrough' work "Mountains and Sea" and Lily Briscoe's painting in Virginia Woolf's novel "To the Lighthouse", this beautifully written book provides crucial new insights into Frankenthaler's practice, as a painter who is also a woman.
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Mountains and Sea: Cézanne's Country in New York and Nova Scotia
2. 1927: Other Countries, Other Cézannes
3. A Spatial Feeling Connected with Landscapes
4. Something New in Terms of Nature
5. A Painting of the Rosenberg Era
6. Eden: Et in Arcadia Ego
Post Factum
Notes
Bibliography
Index
