Fred Orton

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Fred Lionel Orton (born 1945, Coventry, Warwickshire England) is an English art historian. His initial training was at Coventry College of Art in painting as a Dip.A,D student. He extended his experience in the History and Development of Art initially at the Courtauld Institute in London and then professionally as a scholar of art history and art theory at the University of Leeds.

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Scholarship

Orton published an influential essay in 1991 in the Oxford Art Journal [1] that argued that Harold Rosenberg, the critic who coined the term "Action painting", developed the concept as a result of his commitment to Marxism rather than to the photographs of Jackson Pollock in action. According to art critic Stephen Moonie, Orton's essay was one of the first attempts to define the term, offering a "political reading" which, "as Orton shows with great diligence", was a continued effort in Rosenberg's career. [2] With Griselda Pollock he wrote Avant-Gardes and Partisans Reviewed and Vincent van Gogh: Artist of his Time. [3] A social historian of art, he is influenced by Marxist theory. [4] [5] His 1994 book Figuring Jasper Johns investigated the relationship between Jasper Johns and Frank O'Hara. [6]

Orton is also one of the editors of a collection on the Ruthwell and Bewcastle crosses, [7] and with Catherine Karkov edited an important collection on Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture; he contributed one essay, and three other essays are responses to his. [8]

Books published

Selected articles

Orton, F. (1991). "Action, Revolution and Painting". Oxford Art Journal. 14 (2): 3–17. doi:10.1093/oxartj/14.2.3.; republished in Orton and Pollock, Avant-Gardes and Partisans Reviewed, 3-17. [1] [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Robbins, Christa Noel (2012). "Harold Rosenberg on the Character of Action". Oxford Art Journal . 35 (2): 195–214. doi:10.1093/oxartj/kcs019. JSTOR   23322155.
  2. 1 2 Moonie, Stephen (2022). Art Criticism and Modernism in the United States. Routledge. p. 113. ISBN   9781000554311.
  3. ↑ Thomson, Richard (2008). Vincent Van Gogh: The Starry Night. The Museum of Modern Art. p. 41. ISBN   9780870707483.
  4. ↑ Harris, Jonathan (2002). The New Art History: A Critical Introduction. Routledge. p. 22. ISBN   9781134582501.
  5. ↑ Harris, Jonathan (2006). Art History: The Key Concepts. Routledge. p. 182. ISBN   9781134363278.
  6. ↑ Gold, Alexandra (2015). "Coming Unhinged:: Art and Body in Frank O'Hara and Jasper Johns". Interdisciplinary Literary Studies . 17 (3): 330–351. doi:10.5325/intelitestud.17.3.0330. JSTOR   10.5325/intelitestud.17.3.0330.
  7. 1 2 Reviews of Fragments of History:
  8. 1 2 Reviews of Theorizing Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture:
  9. ↑ Review of Vincent van Gogh:
    • Petrie, Brian (July 1979). The Burlington Magazine. 121 (916): 455. JSTOR   879696.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  10. ↑ Reviews of Figuring Jasper Johns:
    • Brilliant, Richard (March–April 1996). "On target". The Print Collector's Newsletter. 27 (1): 36–37. JSTOR   24555761.
    • Jachec, Nancy (1995). "Committed practices: intentionality, radical subjectivity, and the history of art". Oxford Art Journal. 18 (2): 110–112. doi:10.1093/oxartj/18.2.110. JSTOR   1360565.
    • Schiff, Richard (Summer 1995). "Go figure". Bookforum: 1, 26, 33.
  11. ↑ Reviews of Avant-Gardes and Partisans Reviewed:


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