Albert Irvin and American Abstract Expressionism
- Submitting institution
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University of Gloucestershire
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 28
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- RWA, Bristol
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first exhibition
- December
- Year of first exhibition
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- ‘Albert Irvin and American Abstract Expressionism’ was the first major museum retrospective of Albert Irvin, one of Britain’s most important post-war painters and printmakers, placed in the context of a re-presentation of the seminal 1959 exhibition at the Tate, ‘The New American Painting’. Curated by Stewart Geddes PRWA, ‘Albert Irvin and American Abstract Expressionism’ explored the impact of this exhibition on Irvin and his own move into abstraction, as well as its influence on other British artists. Geddes brought together works by Irvin alongside most of the artists featured the 1959 exhibition at the Tate. These include Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Sam Francis, Adolph Gottlieb, Grace Hartigan and Jack Tworkov. A key question for this project was the role of the ‘looking experience’ for artists and for contemporary art. The exhibition ran from December 2018 to March 2019 at RWA in Bristol, the UK’s only regional Royal Academy of Art. The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue, featuring an introductory essay by Mel Gooding and an interview with Irvin’s friend and fellow painter Basil Beattie, along with an essay by Geddes, and illustrations of many of the works on show. The accompanying one-day symposium (‘Abstract Painting Now’) took place on 4 February 2019 at the RWA, organised by Richard Salkeld, also of the University of Gloucestershire. The focus of the symposium was on the current status of non-figurative painting within contemporary art practice, considered against the background of ‘Albert Irvin and American Abstract Expressionism’.
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- Non-English
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