Description: Documentary film about the artist of the Abstract Expressionists and their lives in New York in the 1940s - 1970.
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FINAL TRACES OF THE ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISTS I & II
Artist and filmmaker Caro Jost takes viewers to the original locations where the Abstract Expressionists were active in and outside of New York City from ca. 1940 - 1970. These locations, at which art history was made, are the former studios and apartments, meeting places and bars, exhibition spaces and galleries. Caro Jost follows in the footsteps of the artists of an era. In a mixture of walk and detective hunt, she shows what has now become of these once important places, e.g. designer lofts, a second ha
PART I : In 14 chapters the documentary film illustrates the final traces of: Hans Hofmann, Peggy Guggenheim, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Franz Kline, Ruth Kligman, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko and furthermore their meeting points like Cedar Bar, Waldorf Cafeteria, The Club or the Tanager Gallery. The few still living witnesses provide interview testimony. The today famous artist Alex Katz meets his colleagues in the former rooms of a ga