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Omen of the Eagle

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Description: Omen of the Eagle
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Description: Antifascism in American Art
The few public statements issued jointly by Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb in the early forties make it abundantly clear that the Second World War affected their thinking about art. They suggested on several occasions that their paintings related to the turbulence of their times. It is therefore tempting to point out a correspondence between their mythic imagery—which mingles references to Greco-Roman tragedies with a surrealist style—and the violence of the war. Neither artist, however, went …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.170-196
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00017.010

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