Art in America, 1945-1970: writings from the age of abstract expressionism, pop art and minimalism

My painting / Jackson Pollock --

The romantics were prompted ; Two statements from The tiger's eye / Mark Rothko --

The first man was an artist ; The sublime is now ; Ohio, 1949 / Barnett Newman --

Art of this century / Peggy Guggenheim --

(from) The amazing and invariable Beauford Delaney / Henry Miller --

Introduction to Helen Levitt's A way of seeing / James Agee --

Journals, 1948-50 / Charles Burchfield --

Mondrian, kleenex, and you / Robert M. Coates --

The Renaissance and order ; What abstract art means to me / Willem de Kooning --

The thirties ; Willem de Kooning ; Katz: collage, cutout, cut-up ; The silence at night ; "At first sight, not Pollock, Kline scared" ; "Alex Katz paints his north window" / Edwin Denby --

Jackson Pollock: the infinite labyrinth / Parker Tyler --

Elie Nadelman: sculptor of the dance / Lincoln Kirstein --

An appreciation / Tennessee Williams --

(from) Evil under the sun / Anton Myrer --

(from) The search for the real in the visual arts / Hans Hofmann --

Review of an exhibition of Willem de Kooning ; The role of nature in modern painting ; "American-type" painting ; Modernist painting / Clement Greenberg --

Statement ; An open letter to an art critic / Clyfford Still --

An alphabetical guide to modern art ; Alphabetical guide no.2 ; Acrostic for Jackson Pollock / Dwight Ripley --

Black or white ; What abstract art means to me / Robert Motherwell --

Robert Motherwell ; Adolph Gottlieb / Weldon Kees --

Reminiscence and reverie / Mark Tobey --

The visionary painting of Morris Graves / Kenneth Rexroth --

Painting in the American grain / William Carlos Williams --

Robert Andrew Parker / Marianne Moore --

(from) Action on West Fifty-Third Street / Dwight Macdonald --

The American action painters ; Parable of American painting ; Evidences ; Mobile, theatrical, active --

An academy of risk / Mary McCarthy --

A cahier leaf ; Statement ; Four excerpts from a journal / Jack Tworkov --

Joan Mitchell / Irving Sandler --

(from) An emotional memoir of Franz Kline / Fielding Dawson --

(from) The recognitions / William Gaddis --

Introduction to Robert Frank's The Americans / Jack Kerouac --

On Richard Avedon / Truman Capote --

Statement / Aaron Siskind --

Against abstract expressionism / Randall Jarrell --

Excerpts from an unfinished manuscript titled "Art" / John Graham --

Toward meta-form / Alfred Russell --

From the diaries / Joseph Cornell --

What abstract art means to me / Alexander Calder --

(from) The shape of content / Ben Shahn --

(from) A sculptor's world / Isamu Noguchi --

Tapestry / Anni Albers --

The landscape ; The question-what is your hope ; The question-what are your influences-"there is something rather noble about junk" ; Dream / David Smith --

Four soldiers; a sculpture in iron by David Smith / Howard Nemerov --

An artist's words ; On the creative process ; Form / Louise Bourgeois --

Piero della Francesca: the impossiblity of painting faith, hope and Impossibility / Philip Guston --

Philip Guston: the last painter ; Give my regards to Eighth Street / Morton Feldman --

Abstract art refuses ; Art-as-art / Ad Reinhardt --

Harry Callahan: a note ; John Chamberlain ; On the road: notes on artists and poets 1950-1965 / Robert Creeley --

Pure paints a picture : Painting a portrait of the President / Elaine de Kooning --

The liberating quality of avant-garde art ; On the humanity of abstract painting / Meyer Schapiro --

The creative act ; Apropos of "Readymades" / Marcel Duchanp --

Statement ; From the journals, 1952 / Grace Hartigan --

Why I am not a painter ; David Smith: the color of steel ; Art chronicle I ; Larry Rivers: a memoir / Frank O'Hara --

Life among the stones / Larry Rivers --

Statement on Poetics ; The painting of Jane Freilicher ; Short reviews from Art News / James Schuyler --

(from) Beyond the machine / Calvin Tomkins --

At the museum of modern art / May Swenson --

The legacy of Jackson Pollock / Allan Kaprow --

Happenings: an art of radical juxtaposition / Susan Sontag --

On the painter Beauford Delaney / James Baldwin --

Bruce Conner: a new sensibility ; Joan Brown / Philip Ledider --

A visit with Sam Rodia / Kate Steinitz --

Letter to Jerry Reilly / Jess --

(from) Iconographical extensions / Robert Duncan --

Three letters / H. C. Westermann --

The abstract sublime / Robert Rosenblum --

Month in review, January 1962 ; Franz Kline (1910-1962) ; Philip Pearlstein and the new philistinism / Sidney Tillim --

Jasper Johns: stories and ideas / John Cage --

Statement ; Sketchbook notes / Jasper Johns --

Statement / Robert Rauschenberg --

Contemporary art and the plight of its public / Leo Steinberg --

What is pop art? ; (from) The philosophy of Andy Warhol / Andy Warhol --

(from) Stor days / Claes Oldenburg --

The new American "Sign Painters" / Gene R. Swenson --

Junkdump fair surveyed / John Bernard Myers --

The paintings of E. E. Cummings ; Richard Stankiewicz ; John Graham ; Against idealism ; Joseph Cornell ; A painter obsessed by blue / Fairfield Porter --

Edward Hopper: an American vision / Hilton Kramer --

The art of Romare Bearden / Ralph Ellison --

Painting as painting / Louis Finkelstein --

The battle of Paris, strip-tease and Trotsky: some non-scenic travel notes / Thomas B. Hess --

ABC art / Barbara Rose --

Local history ; Specific objects / Donald Judd --

Allusion and illusion in Donald Judd / Rosalind Krauss --

The crystal land / Robert Smithson --

New York letter: Warhol ; Art and objecthood / Michael Fried --

Andy Warhol in Paris ; Joan Mitchell ; Leland Bell ; The invisible avant-garde / John Ashbery.