Through the paintings of these 18 artists, guided by the charismatic Pollock and referred to as "The Irascibles", after a famous protest they staged against the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this is a complete view of an essential artistic style that reinterpreted the canvas as a space for individual freedom of thought and action. It was both the style of the New York School and a unique phenomenon, which characterized post-war America and that with overwhelming force, influenced Modern Art across the world.
The book is the exhibition's catalogue, which includes more than 49 masterpieces from the Whitney Museum in New York among which Pollock's Number 27, Mahoning by Franz Kline (1956), Door to the River by Willem de Kooning (1960) and Untitled (Blue, Yellow, Green on Red) (1954) by Mark Rothko, alongside works by artists who may be less famous, but that represent their mature periods and, more generally speaking, their time.
24 ORE Cultura exhibition: 24th September - 16th February, 2014, Milan Palazzo Reale, Italy; the exhibition is curated by Carter Foster, in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of New York.
Carter Foster is currently curator, and curator of drawings, at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Prior to joining the Whitney in 2005, he was curator and co-chair of the department of Prints and Drawings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. From 1996 until 2004 he was a curator in the drawing department of the Cleveland Museum of Art. He has published widely on both contemporary and old master drawings.
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