Works Cited:
“Abstract Expressionism.” Tate Modern Museum. Web.
Auden, W.H. “Spain” W.H. Auden Selected Poems. Edited by Edward Mendelson, Vintage International Press, 2007. Print.
Fineberg, Jonathan. “Robert Motherwell” from Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being. 3rd ed., Pearson, 2011. Print. 71-77.
Grass, Sean C. “W.H. Auden, from Spain to “Oxford.”” South Atlantic Review. South Atlantic Review, 66.1. Print. 84-101.
Greenberg, Clement. “Modernist Painting.” Arts Yearbook 4, 1961. PDF.
“Noumenon (Philosophy).” Entry 1. Encyclopedia Brittanica. 20 July 1998. Web.
“Modernism.” University of Nevada Las Vegas. Web. December 2016.
“Phenomenon (Philosophy).” Entry 1. Encyclopedia Brittanica. 20 July 1998. Web.
Rosenberg, Harold. “The American Action Painters.” The Tradition of the New. New York: Horizon, 1959. 23-39. Print.
Sandler, Irving. “Robert Motherwell.” The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism. Praeger Publishers: New York City, New York. 1970. Print. 201-210.
Sell, Roger, D. Literary Community Making: The Dialogicality of English Texts from the Seventeenth Century to the Present. John Benjamins Publishing, 2012. Print. 189.
Schapiro, Meyer. “Nature of Abstract Art.” Marxist Quarterly 1, no. 1. January-March 1937. Print. 77-98.
Smith, Shaw C. “Abstract Expressionism”. ART 219: Contemporary Art. Davidson College, 16 September 2016, Seamans Lecture Hall, Katherine and John Belk Visual Arts Center, Davidson, NC. Lecture.
Turco, Lewis. The Book of Literary Terms: The Genres of Fiction, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, and Scholarship. UPNE, 1999. Print.
Images:
Pollock, Jackson. “Number 28.” 1950.
Oil on canvasMotherwell, Robert “Elegy for the Spanish Rebulic No 70,” Elegy for the Spanish Republic (series). 1971. Oil on canvas.
Sakelaris, Isabelle. “Poemage Example View,” Poemage. n.d., screenshot. Web.
Sakelaris, Isabelle. “Full Sections Words,” Poemage. n.d., screenshot. Web.
Sakelaris, Isabelle. “Artistic Realization,” Poemage. n.d., screenshot. Web.
Pollock, Jackson. “Full Fathom Five.” 1947. Oil on canvas.
Sakelaris, Isabelle. “Section One Words,” Poemage. n.d., screenshot. Web.
Sakelaris, Isabelle. “Section One Classicism,” Poemage. n.d., screenshot. Web.
Sakelaris, Isabelle. “Section One All,” Poemage. n.d., screenshot. Web.
Sakelaris, Isabelle. “Section Two Words,” Poemage. n.d., screenshot. Web.
Sakelaris, Isabelle. “Section Two Classicism,” Poemage. n.d., scsreenshot. Web.
Sakelaris, Isabelle. “Section Two Classicism and Sublime,” Poemage. n.d., screenshot. Web.
Sakelaris, Isabelle. “Section Three Words,” Poemage. n.d., screenshot. Web.
Sakelaris, Isabelle. “Section Three All,” Poemage. n.d., sreenshot. Web.
Further Reading
Richard R. Borstein, “But Who Would Get It?”: Auden and the Codes of Poetry and Desire
- Bornstein investigates Auden’s identity as a queer poet and his use of coded language with privileged “in groups” and ignorant “out groups.”
- Bornstein, Richard R. “‘But Who Would Get It?’: Auden and the Codes of Poetry and Desire.” ELH, Vol. 62, No. 3. Fall 1995. 709-727. PDF.
Sean C. Grass, W.H. Auden, from Spain to “Oxford.”
- An analysis of Auden’s letters before, during, and after his participation in the Spanish Civil War and his time as a student at Oxford University.
- Grass, Sean C. “W.H. Auden, from Spain to “Oxford.”” South Atlantic Review. South Atlantic Review, 66.1. Print. 84-101.
Meyer Schapiro, Nature of Abstract Art
- One of the foundational essays on Modernist art and Abstract Expressionism.
- Schapiro, Meyer. Nature of abstract art. American Marxist Association, 1937.
Clement Greenberg, Modernist Painting
- The famous essay in which Greenberg defined Modernist painting, abstract purity, and “inelluctable flatness,” which was one of the hallmarks of a fine AbEx work, according to the author. He also writes about the noumena and phenomena.
- Greenberg, Clement. “Modernist Painting.” Art & Literature, no. 4, Spring 1965. Print. 193-201.
Frances Stonor Saunders, Modern Art was CIA ‘weapon’
- This article examines how Jackson Pollock’s gesturalist works were used as leftist propaganda by the CIA during the Cold War.
- Stonor Saunders, Frances “Modern Art was CIA ‘weapon.’” The Independent. 21 October 1995. Web.
Isabelle Sakelaris, The Universality and Individualism of Abstraction in Modernist Art
- This essay compares Auden’s “Spain” (1937) to AbEx artist Robert Motherwell’s “Elegy for the Spanish Republic No. 70” (1971). This project prompted the essay, though they are neither identical in form nor meaning.
- Sakelaris, Isabelle. “The Universality and Individualism of Abstraction in Modernist Art.” Terrible Beauty: Yeats and Modern Poetry. Davidson College. 7 October, 2016. Web.
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