The Shape of Freedom: read, listen, watch

Recommended reading list, podcasts and films.

Keen to dive deeper into themes and artists from the exhibition The Shape of Freedom

REading list

Albert Camus - Create Dangerously 
Mary Gabriel - Ninth Street Women  
Barbara Hess - Abstract Expressionism  
Ellen G. Landau (ed), Reading Abstract Expressionism – Context and Critique 
Frances Stonor Saunders - Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War 

Podcasts

Royal Academy of Arts, London: Intro to Abstract Expressionism   

Sarah Churchwell on background  

 Women of AbEx  
  
Art Curious: 
Rivals: Pollock vs. De Kooning 
Rivals: Lee Krasner and Elaine de Kooning vs. Their Husbands 

Rothko’s No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) 
 
The CIA/AbEx Connection  
 
HerArt Podcast:
Joan Mitchell - the Last Abstract Expressionist 

Films

Documentaries:  
 
Painters Painting - classic American film from 1972 (dir. Emile de Antonio) 

 Post-War Paris: Dubuffet, Wols, Fautrier

Artist clips:  
 
Karel Appel  
 
Jean Dubuffet 
 
Helen Frankenthaler  
 
Rupprecht Geiger (på tysk)  
 
Adolph Gottlieb 
 
Simon Hantai 
 
Asger Jorn
 
Franz Kline
 
Lee Krasner
 
Georges Mathieu 
 
Joan Mitchell 
 
Barnett Newman
 
Jackson Pollock

Mark Rothko  
 
Rothko & Mozart 
 
The Case for Mark Rothko 
 
Pierre Soulages
 
Hedda Sterne 
 
Clyfford Still 
 
Antoni Tapies  
 
Maria Vieira da Silva 
 
‘My Cat Could Make That’ (TED Talk - for kids): 
What is abstract expressionism? - Sarah Rosenthal