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The Various Alex Katz, in New Criterion
by Mario Naves. 3 pgs.

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Starting Out, in New Criterion
by Alex Katz. 5 pgs.

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On Modern American Art: Selected Essays ("Alex Katz's American Accent 1986" begins on p. 268)
by Robert Rosenblum. 386 pgs.

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Robert Rosenblum is a critic, curator and art historian, whose writings helped establish the reputations of Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol. In this collection he explores the meanings, movements and paradoxes of 20th-century American art.

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Preface

What is American About American Art? 1990

Resurrecting Augustus Vincent Tack 1986

A Dada Bouquet for New York 1996

Reconstructing Benton 1992

De Chirico's Long American Shadow 1996

Remembrance of Fairs Past 1989

American Painting Since the Second World War 1958

The Abstract Sublime 1961

Arshile Gorky 1958

Jackson Pollock 1988

The Fatal Women of Picasso and De Kooning 1984

Notes on De Kooning 1990

Rothko's Surrealist Years 1981

Rothko and Tradition 1987

My Life with Rothko

A View of Andrew Wyeth 1987

Morria Louis at the Guggenheim Museum 1963

Louise Nevelson 1959

James Bishop:Reason and Impulse 1967

Cy Twombly 1984

Jasper Johns 1960

Johns's Three Flags 1980

Jasper Johns: Realm of Memory 1997

Frank Stella, Five Years of Variations on an "Irreducible" Theme 1965

Frank Stella, 1958 to 1965 1986

Stella's Third Dimension 1983

Pop Art and Non-Pop Art 1965

Roy Lichtenstein and the Realist Revolt 1963

Roy Lichtenstein: Past, Present, Future 1991

Andy Warhol: Court Painter to the 70s 1979

Andy Warhol: Portrait of the 80s a Postscript 1993

ANDY WARHOL: PORTRAIT OF THE 80S A POSTSCRIPT 1993

Warhol as Art History 1989

Mel Ramos, How Venus Came to California 1994

Notes on Sol Lewitt 1978

Dan Flavln, Name in Lights 1997

Alex Katz's American Accent 1986

George Segal 1986

Alfred Leslie 1976

Remembering Joe Brainard 1997

Robert Moskowitz 1983

A Postscript: Some Recent Neo-Romantic Mutations 1993

Scott Burton: the Last Tableau 1991

Sturtevant 1987

Mike Bidlo 1989

Ric Fischl 1984

David Salle 1985

Mark Innerst's Time Capsules 1990

Jeff Koons 1992

Mike and Doug Starn 1990

Mcdermott and Mcgough: the Art of Time Travel 1997

A Bibliography of Writings

List of Illustrations

Index
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The New York School: The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties (Chap. 6 "Rivers, Hartigan, Goodnough, Myller, Johnson, Porter, Katz, Pearlstein, and Other Gestural Realists")
by Irving Sandler. 366 pgs.

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The New York School: The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: The Milieu of the New York School in the Early Fifties

2: The Community of the New York School

3 the Colonization of Gesture Painting

4: Frankenthaler, Mitchell, Leslie, Resnick, Francis, and Other Gesture Painters

5: Gestural Realism

6: Rivers, Hartigan, Goodnough, Müller, Johnson, Porter, Katz, Pearlstein, and Other Gestural Realists

7: Assemblage: Stankiewicz, Chamberlain, Di Suvero, and Other Junk Sculptors

8: The Duchamp - Cage Aesthetic

9: Rauschenberg and Johns

10: Environments and Happenings: Kaprow, Grooms, Oldenburg, Dine, and Whitman

11: Hard-Edge and Stained Color- Field Abstraction, and Other Non-Gestural Styles: Kelly Smith, Louis, Noland, Parker, Held, and Others

12: The Recognition of the Second Generation

13: The New Academy

14: Circa 1960: a Change in Sensibility

Appendix A: First-Generation Painters, Dates and Places of Birth

Appendix B: Second-Generation Artists, Dates and Places of Birth, Art Education, and One-Person Shows in New York, 1950-1960

Bibliography

List of Illustrations

Index
5.

A Tree Grows in SoHo, in Artforum International
by Tom Breigenbach. 4 pgs.

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Alex Katz, in The Nation
by Arthur C. Danto. 4 pgs.

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Katzorama, in Art Journal
by David Cohen. 3 pgs.

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"Something Hot Done in a Cool Way": Alex Katz, King of American Style, in New Statesman
by David Cohen. 2 pgs.

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