In his short and eventful life Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) scandalised the conservative establishment of arts and letters with the subject matter of his paintings and lithographs He was part of the avant-garde whose work provoked and fascinated, and he became one of the most representative ...
How postwar abstract modernist paintings came to be seen as metaphorical embodiments of masculine selfhood; an examination of the critical discourse surrounding the work of Matisse, de Kooning, Pollock, and the post-painterly Abstractionists. In the era of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit--when social ...