The Shape of Freedom: read, listen, watch
Recommended reading list, podcasts and films.
From the exhibition The Shape of Freedom at MUNCH (23.02.–21.05.2023) Photo: Munchmuseet
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
