Helen Frankenthaler: After Abstract Expressionism, 1959–1962 Katy Homans Made during the ascendancy of

Made during the ascendancy of Pop art

Combining expressive linework with compelling symbolism

Accompanying the texts are images from the MoMA archives

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this newly translated account offers fresh perspectives on Twombly’s career and on developments in American art criticism over the course of more than four decades

Helen Frankenthaler: After Abstract Expressionism, 1959–1962 Katy Homans Made during the ascendancy ofThis book was published on the occasion of Helen Frankenthaler: After Abstract Expressionism, 19591962 at Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu, Paris, the first major exhibition of the artists work in Paris in more than fifty years. It brought together fourteen paintings and two works on paper to explore a radical, lesser known body of work that demonstrates Frankenthalers deliberate return to gestural improvisation, creating paintings with imposing scale and