Artforum, May 1st, 2003
Three decades ago in Artforum, Max Kozloff asked just what, beyond formal achievement, made Abstract Expressionism (and Pop art and Color Field painting on its heels) so triumphant after all. Managing editor JENNIFER LIESE looks back on the essay that opened the floodgates on political readings of postwar art.
"THE MOST CONCERTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS of American art occurred during precisely the same period as the burgeoning claims of American world hegemony." Coincidence? Max Kozloff thought not. And with "American Painting During the Cold War," he set out to prove it-placing the era's dominant s...
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