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Author Talk, Helen Harrison, "The Subject Matter of the Artist:Writings by Robert Goodnough, 1950-1965. "
Author Talk, Helen Harrison, "The Subject Matter of the Artist:Writings by Robert Goodnough, 1950-1965. "
Author Talk:
Helen Harrison
Saturday, October 19, 2:30-4
The Subject Matter of the Artist:Writings by Robert Goodnough, 1950-1965.
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The absence of traditional subject matter was a primary issue for painters in mid-twentieth century America whose imagery lacked representational references; it was also a problem for those struggling to understand modern art. Editor, writer and art critic Helen Harrison, discusses The Subject Matter of the Artist:Writings by Robert Goodnough, 1950-1965. The first scholarly work on the artists known as the Abstract Expressionist, Goodnough’s work includes interviews with William Baziotes, Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko.
Helen Harrison, Director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center is an art historian, museum director and journalist who specializes in modern American art. She is the author of the upcoming Focus: Jackson Pollack (Phaidon Press, 2014). Her column “Eye on Art” appears monthly in the Sag Harbor Express.
