Eye of the sixties: Richard Bellamy and the transformation of modern art

Abstract

"Uncovering the legacy of Richard Bellamy, one of the most influential tastemakers of Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art"--

Contents

Part I. Gusts of great enkindlings -- His fated eccentricity -- Provincetown, 1948-49 -- This calling of art -- Hansa days -- Provincetown, 1957 -- Hipsters, beatniks, bohemians, and squares -- An era's end -- The republic of downtown -- Part II. Living in change -- The secret sharer -- "Our greenest days" -- Seeing and unseeing -- Pop goes the weasel -- Tomorrow is yesterday -- Dark green -- Wrong man at the right time -- Fade to black -- Part III. The pleasures of mere circulating -- Goldowsky days -- 1973 and all that -- Bel ami.