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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Something, Thoughts, Art with the genre: Arts & Photography, History & Criticism?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Abstract Expressionism For Beginners'
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conversations.value: Give me the first two paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: Abstract Expressionism For Beginners
  The Abstract Expressionists were, to be sure, the insurgents of the art world. For all their sometimes noble-savage posturing, however, AbEx was undergirded by a serious artistic ethos, as well as a crucial foundation of critical gravitas. While the painters painted, others spread the word and Abstract Expressionism found its way into the greater culture at large, as well as the community of intellectuals, theorists, and academics.
  Clement Greenberg provided the erudite narrative that complemented the Abstract Expressionists. Referencing a cast of characters that included Karl Marx and Immanuel Kant, Greenberg slotted Abstract Expressionism as part of a rarefied lineage that stretched back to Édouard Manet and Paul Cézanne. Painting, to Greenberg, was separate and discrete from other art forms—the most potent refutation of the mass-production and stifling conformity of American society. Abstract Expressionism was a higher calling.
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conversations.value: Give me five more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Abstract Expressionism basically fell out of favor as the 1960s got underway. Current movements in all spheres of the arts can become much less current very quickly. The ultra-cool rock 'n rollers of the 1950s looked completely outdated after the British Invasion of the 1960s. The situation wasn't quite as extreme with the Abstract Expressionist painters—they didn't become instantly arcane. But the stage shifted to Pop Art, to Jasper Johns, to Robert Rauschenberg, to Andy Warhol, artists in synch with a new era and new modes of art-making, music, film: new sensibilities all around. And they were new sensibilities that Abstract Expressionism couldn't address.
  Abstract Expressionism's boozed-up bravado and repellant misogyny began to be seen as less than excusable. Even worse—fatal for an art movement that prided itself on being new and iconoclastic—that boozed-up bravado began to be seen as unfashionable, a sort of meat-and-potatoes dissipation. The AbEx painters began to be seen less as outlaws and more as guys sitting around in the bar. The sexism was another matter, which began to be viewed as a toxic relic of the recent past. It was not just a question of simple insensitivity, but something even more pernicious: They had relegated female painters of the first rank—Frankenthaler, Krasner, Mitchell, Hartigan, and so many others—into a subservient position.
  The Abstract Expressionist talent was not in question, but they began to be seen as they often were: drunk, quarrelling—sometimes brawling—male painters who devalued women in every way.
  Abstract Expressionism was the classic revolutionary upstart, a collection of painterly outcasts and oddballs. It spread out of its hardscrabble, downtown confines and went on to conquer the art world. Whether future painters took from AbEx or rejected AbEx, it was the force to be reckoned with. Generations of art-school students have studied it, learned from it, or chosen to ignore it. But there was no denying its impact.
  Abstract Expressionism also burst out of its purely painterly confines and permeated to the larger visual world. Design, graphics, comics, advertising—they all bore the imprint of Abstract Expressionism. Visually, its effects were ubiquitous.
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conversations.value: Give me the last four paragraphs.
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conversations.value: The **Metropolitan Museum of Art** —the same museum whose exclusivity inspired the Irascibles all those decades ago—has long since made peace with Abstract Expressionism and boasts an amazing collection: www.metmuseum.org
  The **Whitney Museum of American Art** in New York City—in an entirely new space that's generated a lot of attention—has a wonderful example of the AbEx output: <http://whitney.org>
  The Abstract Expressionists painted and caroused in New York City, so it's not much of a surprise that's where so much of their work is available. Other parts of the country, though, shouldn't be discounted. In California, there's an impressive array at **The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles** : moca.org
  Abstract Expressionism also can also be seen in temporary exhibits at museums and art venues all across the country. It may take a little investigative work—but the results are more than worth it.