Volume 50, Number 1 · January 16, 2003
Divide and Conquer
By John Golding
Barnett Newman
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Ann Temkin, with essays by Ann Temkin and Richard Shiff, and contributions by Suzanne Penn and Melissa Ho
an exhibition held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 24–July 7, 2002, and at Tate Modern, London, September 9, 2002–January 5, 2003.
Philadelphia Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 351 pp., $65.00
Although Barnett Newman, through his writings, did as much as any other single figure to create the climate in which Abstract Expressionism was to be born and subsequently to flourish, he was the least expressionistic of the Abstract Expressionists. Alfred Barr was until the last moment doubtful about including him in the exhibition entitled 'The New American Painting' launched by MOMA in 1958,[1] because he didn't appear to fit into it comfortably. Newman was probably pleased to get the recognition but he would also have been pleased about the doubt; throughout his career he refused to be categorized.
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