Theodore J. Roszak (1907-1981): Painting and sculpture.
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Title
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Theodore J. Roszak (1907-1981): Painting and sculpture.
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Identifier
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AAI9315459
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identifier
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9315459
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Creator
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Dreishpoon, Douglas Scott.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Robert Pincus-Witten
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Date
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1993
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Art History | Biography
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Abstract
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A monographic, revisionist study on the painting and sculpture of Theodore Roszak. This dissertation reassesses the artist's career: his early art education in Chicago during the late 1920s; his year-long wanderjahre through Europe in 1930-31 and return to America during the Depression; his first sculptural experiments in plaster and continued investigations of painting; his abstract constructions, particularly the "bipolar" forms, and their political significance; his association, as a teacher, with the Laboratory School of Design, New York, and his subsequent employment in the art department at Sarah Lawrence College, where he met the mythologist Joseph Campbell; his conversion during the war years from constructivism to expressionism and the archetypal implications of his postwar sculpture and drawings; his later commissions for public sculpture during 1952-1968; his persistent interest in drawing and self-portraits; and, from the 1970s until his death, his overt return to representation and narrative in the form of an extensive series of lithographic prints.;Roszak's reputation as a postwar American sculptor who consistently dealt with figuration, surrealist anatomies, and erudite themes is analyzed in terms of Clement Greenberg's critical dictums. Roszak's postwar work, his attitude toward popular culture and the artist as a socially responsible being, is discussed in the context of an intellectual history and his association with a group of New York intellectuals affiliated with the literary journal Partisan Review.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
