Artist as Author
Action and Intent in Late-Modernist American Painting
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Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction. The Artist as Author
Part I
Chapter One. The Act-Painting
Chapter Two. The Expressive Fallacy
Chapter Three. Rhetoric of Motives
Part II
Chapter Four. Self-Discipline
Chapter Five. Event as Painting
Chapter Six. Conclusion: Gridlocked
Part I
Chapter One. The Act-Painting
Chapter Two. The Expressive Fallacy
Chapter Three. Rhetoric of Motives
Part II
Chapter Four. Self-Discipline
Chapter Five. Event as Painting
Chapter Six. Conclusion: Gridlocked
Acknowledgments
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Review Quotes
Jo Applin, author of Lee Lozano: Not Working
“In this elegant book, Robbins makes a serious intervention in the field of post-war American art, paying careful attention both to abstract painting as it was conceived originally and as it continues to be written about today. Walking readers through the formation of a small group of key painters, she reveals various views among artists and critics on issues of authorship, agency, and the role of the painterly gesture.”
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