American Abstract Artists Journal: Abstract Dilemmas
Description
Excerpt from the Editorial Introduction
The notion of dilemma does not necessarily imply a negative connotation. In Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit for example, it is the negative dialect that drives history. To ask what dilemmas are is to re-examine how its variable inscriptions affect the course of abstraction. What is abstraction’s signification? Where does its value lie? What are its ethics, if any? There is no unanimity of opinion even within a group as historically anti-realist and pro-modern as the AAA. Our aim in bringing diverse approaches together in this journal is to recognize that the practice and discourse of abstraction are alive and continuously in flux.
This journal continues to act as a forum for ideas and topics about abstraction and to present the work and writing of both members and non-members.
American Abstract Artists Journal, Number 4, 2000, 62 pages
Contents
Editorial
Personal Profile: Beatrice Riese, by Peter Pinchbeck
The Dilemma of Contemporary Abstraction, by Robert C. Morgan
Reality, by Katinka Mann
Matters of Choice, by Peter Stroud
Abstract Dilemmas: A Monologue, by Edwin Ruda
Abstraction — A Midlife Crisis, by Phillis Ideal
On the Interface of Abstraction and Landscape, by Hearne Pardee
Further Desistance / I'm Late, I'm Late, by Marthe Keller
The Symbol and the Search, by Jeanne C. Wilkinson
Volumetric Abstraction, by Peter Pinchbeck
Dilemma, by Mac Wells
Finding Meaning in Form, by Cecily Kahn
Abstract Dilemmas Pop Quiz, by Don Voisine
Merely Painting or Getting the Thing in Itself Wrong Again, by Saul Ostrow
Three Racoons and A Garage Are Not Art, by Richard Timperio
On the Question of Relevance and Meaning in Recent Abstract Painting, by James Little
Leo Rabkin — Statement, by Leo Rabkin
The Depths of Abstraction, by Tom Evans
Engineering Tranquility, by James Juszczyk
Painting as Mediation, by Stephanie Demanuelle
Abstraction Resignified: Some Remarks on the Fate of Abstract Painting, by Corey Postiglione
Abstract Painting Versus New Media, by Joe Walentini
The Margins of Seeing, by Gail Gregg
In Memoriam: Jeanne Miles 1908-1999, by Peter Pinchbeck
Jeanne Miles: A Reminiscence, by James Gross