The American Artist at Work: Romanian-American Colloquium on Art Criticism

Abstract

A report on a colloquium art held in Bucharest in 1979n to accompany an exhibition on American art with works by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, David Smith, Louise Nevelson, and George Segal. In spite of the author’s insistence on “an open and receptive critical spirit, spanning a vast cultural horizon”, the reality was a clear absence of interaction: the American speakers spoke about US art, the Romanian hosts about Romanian art.

Keywords:

• American art
• Romanian art
• Sala Polivalentă Bucharest
• Dan Grigorescu
• Alexandru Cebuc
• Walter Hopps
• John Coplans

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Amelia Pavel

Translated from Romanian by Jozefina Komporaly Originally published as “Artistul american la lucru: Colocviu româno-american de critică de artă,” in Arta (1979): 31.