Autore: John O. Brian

On 7 March 1990 the National Gallery of Canada issued a press release announcing its purchase of a large abstract painting by the American artist Barnett Newman for $1.8 million. Within 72 hours the …

Atomic postcards played an important role in creating and disseminating a public image of nuclear power. Presenting small-scale images of test explosions, power plants, fallout shelters, and long-ran …

"The great purpose of landscape art is to make us at home in our own country" was the nationalist maxim motivating the Group of Seven’s artistic project. The empty landscape paintings of th …

What does it mean to live in a post-atomic world? Photography and contemporary art offer a provocative lens through which to comprehend the by-products of the atomic age, from weapons proliferation, …

Clement Greenberg (19091994), champion of abstract expressionism and modernismof Pollock, Mir, and Matissehas been esteemed by many as the greatest art critic of the second half of the twentieth cent …