American masters 1940-1980

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The National Gallery of Australia has one of the greatest collections of American art outside the United States.The Gallery's exceptional collection from the mid-twentieth century includes masterworks by artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Louise Bourgeois, Lee Krasner and Andy Warhol, among many others. American Masters features both well-known paintings, such as Pollock's Blue poles 1952, as well as many works rarely seen by Australian audiences, revealing the depth of a collection that has never before been presented as a whole.

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Director's foreword -- Sponsor's foreword -- Our ambitions were high... / Lucina Ward -- Where do you stand? / James Lawrence -- Pop art and its reception / Anthony E. Grudin -- Precursors: New York School -- Colour-field and Post-painterly abstraction -- Neo-Dada, Pop and multiples -- Minimalism -- Conceptual art -- Anti-form: From Soft sculpture to Land art -- Figuration: Photorealism and Funk -- Light -- Video works -- Notes -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index.