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The New York School was an informal group of American poets, painters and musicians active in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s in New York City. The poets, painters, composers, and musicians often drew inspiration from Surrealism and the contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular action painting, abstract expressionism, Jazz, improvisational theater, avant-garde music, and the interaction of friends in the New York City art world's vanguard circle.

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[edit] The Poets

Concerning the New York School poets, critics argued that their work was a reaction to the Confessionalist movement in contemporary poetry. Their poetic subject matter was often light, violent, or observational, while their writing style was often described as cosmopolitan and world-traveled. The poets often wrote in a direct, and immediate, spontaneous, manner reminiscent of word/paintings, and stream of conciousness writing, often using vivid, and visual imagery. They drew on inspiration from Surrealism and the contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular the action painting of their friends in the New York City art circle like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.

Poets most often associated with the New York School are John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, Barbara Guest, Kenward Elmslie, Ron Padgett, James Schuyler, and Sam Abrams.

[edit] The Beats

There are also commonalities between the New York School and the members of the Beat Generation poets also active in 1940s, 1950s and 1960s New York City. Including Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, LeRoi Jones, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Diane DiPrima, Diane Wakoski, Anne Waldman, Tuli Kupferberg, Ed Sanders and several others.

[edit] The composers

The term also refers to a circle of composers in the 1950's who orbited around John Cage: Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, Christian Wolff and David Tudor above all. Their music paralleled the music and events of the Fluxus group, and drew its name from the Abstract Expressionist painters above. What brought these artists together was a faith in the liberation of the unconscious and an excitement drawn from the street energies of Manhattan.

[edit] Jazz

The new Bebop and cool Jazz musicians in the 1940s and 1950s featuring Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Max Roach, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Ahmad Jamal, Gerry Mulligan, Dave Brubeck and many other great Jazz musicians set the tone for the New York School and Abstract expressionism. Later new jazz musicians like Archie Shepp, Ornette Coleman, Roland Kirk, Pharoah Sanders and the evolving Miles Davis and John Coltrane created the sounds for the new and more cool Hard-edge painters, Minimal artists, Color field painters and Pop artists of the sixties.

[edit] New York School artists

Painters, sculptors and printmakers associated with Abstract expressionism, Action painting, Fluxus, Color field painting, Hard-edge painting, Pop Art, Minimal Art and other movements associated with New York City. They often congregated at the Cedar Tavern in Greenwich Village.

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[edit] References

  • American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey, New York School Press, 2003 ISBN 0967799414
  • New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists, New York School Press, 2000 ISBN 0967799406
  • Statutes of Liberty, The New York School of Poets, Geoff Ward, Second Edition, 2001
  • The New American Poetry, 1945-1960, Donald Merriam Allen, 1969
  • An Anthology of New York Poets, Ron Padgett (ed.) and David Shapiro (ed.), 1970
  • Frank O'Hara: Poet Among Painters, Marjorie Perloff, 1977
  • The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets, David Lehman, 1998
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