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Article: Rare gestures: various misconceptions about Abstract-Expressionist prints, a long-neglected field, are challenged in a traveling show titled "The Stamp of Impulse." (Prints).(Naples Museum of Art)
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- Art in America
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- March 1, 2003
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Received wisdom has it that Abstract Expressionism was not a significant movement for prints. With a few exceptions--Gottlieb, Motherwell, Frankenthaler, Francis--Abstract-Expressionist artists have generally been viewed as contributing little to printmaking in terms of quantity or innovation. By contrast, Pop art (so the wisdom goes), with its stake in mechanical processes and mass consumption, not to mention the coincidence of it arising alongside the great collaborative print workshops such as Tatyana Grosman's Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE) in West Islip, N.Y. (in 1957), and June Wayne's Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles (in 1960), is more often ...