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Article: Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s.
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- October 1, 1994
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Michael Leja's Reframing Abstract Expressionism is an ambitious and highly theorized study that adopts a narrow focus with the aim of drawing broad conclusions. Writing from a critical stance influenced especially by Michel Foucault and Louis Althusser, Leja sets out to uncover, and thereby to deconstruct, the ideology of Abstract Expressionism. Such a scheme assumes a certain ideological position on the part of the author himself as well as a centered subject that can be pried apart. In Leja's view, that subject is the fusion that occurred between Abstract Expressionism and the dominant bourgeois ideology of 1940s America. Far from being opponents of the beliefs upon ...
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