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Cargando... Abstract Expressionism (World of Art) (edición 1990)por David Anfam
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The great disappointment is the pictures. Only 28 of 169 illustrations are in color, and frankly, some of the reproductions are so poor that they were better left out. Economics is an important factor here, of course. Ideally, every piece referred to in the text would be illustrated in color. They are handled well in the text: when an illustration is referred to, it's number (rather than page number) is listed in the margin next to the text.
In the end, the author failed to convince me that most of the pieces have any meaning. He quotes David Smith as saying "a work of art of an object s always completed by the viewer," and I don't connect to most of these pieces. Some I find quite visually pleasing: Pollock's Tondo and Eyes in the Heat; Lee Krasner's Noon; Clifford Still's 1948-D, but they don't convey any meaning to me. I was most charmed by some of David Smith's sculptures like The Letter and Oculus, but War Spectre is the only work in the entire book that conveyed meaning and feeling to me, especially since it appears that the artists were not generally trying to convey amusement. Widow's Lament, in Anfam's description "reads as a droll creature with ears and feet," which seems at odds with its intended meaning.
I remain a devotee of Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word. ( )