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Getting Rid of the Glue: The Music of the New York School

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

David Nicholls
Affiliation:
Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Music, University of Keele, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, England.

Extract

The term New York School is usually applied to a number of American visual artists working in and around Manhattan from the early 1940s through to the late 1950s. The group included abstract expressionists, abstract impressionists and action painters; among its leading lights were Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston and Franz Kline. The typical features of New York School art were innovative individual expression and a rejection of past tradition. And while this led to the development of a number of independent styles, rather than a single group style, the overall result was a characteristic American avant-garde approach to art which had much influence internationally.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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