Dore Ashton
Dore Ashton (born in 1928, Newark, New Jersey) is a writer, professor and critic of modern and contemporary art.[1] She is the author or editor of more than thirty books on art, including Noguchi East and West, About Rothko, American Art Since 1945, The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning[2] and Picasso On Art.[3] Ashton has also contributed to many publications including Art Digest and worked as an art critic at the New York Times.[4][5] Ashton was one of the New York art critics who championed the New York School, whose members also included Harold Rosenberg and Barbara Rose.[6] Ashton's 1983 work on Mark Rothko, About Rothko, remains a source of much discussion about the artist.[7] Ashton's most recent book, David Rankin: The New York Years, on artist David Rankin was released in July of 2013.[8]
Ashton has received numerous awards, including Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships in 1963 and 1969,[9] the Frank J. Mather Award for art criticism from the College Art Association in 1963 and a Ford Foundation Award in 1965.[3] Ashton is a professor of art history at the Cooper Union in New York and a senior critic in painting and printmaking at Yale.[1][10] Ashton received an M.A. from Harvard University.
Bibliography
- Noguchi East and West
- Abstract Expressionist Painting in America: Harvard University Press
- The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning
- A Joseph Cornell Album
- The Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors
- About Rothko. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
- David Rankin: The New York Years: Macmillan, 2013
- Picasso On Art
- A Fable of Modern Art
- Out of the whirlwind: Three decades of arts commentary
- A Critical Study of Philip Guston
- A Reading of Modern Art. Cleveland: Press of Case Western Reserve University
- The Unknown Shore: A View of Contemporary Art
References
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- Dore Ashton interview about Philip Guston on YouTube
- Interview with Dore Ashton
- Dore Ashton, Brooklyn Rail
- Ashton essay on Toledo
- Ashton essay on Guadi, Criterion
- Interview with Ashton in Barcelona on YouTube
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