With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Robert Coates
Fiction, Journalism/Non-Fiction
1897 – 1973
- Biography/Description of Work
American writer and a long-term art critic for the New Yorker, Coates coined the term ‘abstract expressionism’ in 1946 in reference to the works of Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and others. He wrote short stories, which appeared in The New Yorker, and several novels in which he experimented using ideas from surrealism and expressionism. Other works include crime fiction and a historical novel about the Natchez Trace. From c.1920 he lived on Church Road, Sherman, in a neighborhood of other intellecturals including artist Peter Blume and poet Hart Crane.
- Sources view
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Coates_(critic), http://moca.org/pc/viewArtTerm.php?id=1, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/nyregion/05spotli.html?_r=0, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0167664/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Coates_(critic), http://books.google.com/books?id=f6cpzX-0qiYC&pg=PA222&lpg=PA222&dq=robert+coates+residence,+sherman+ct&source=bl&ots=Ofi2kN0RNf&sig=3rLdNBQXY-WTIGBbCwn0UBJBXns&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Wb0HU_mtLoTksAT2yYD4DQ&ved=0CD8Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=robert%20coates%20residence%2C%20sherman%20ct&f=false Robert Coates Book Release - New York Times - 1943-12-12, Robert Coates Book Release - New York Times - 1948-9-12, Robert Coates Book Release - New York Times - 1955-9-4, Robert Coates Books - New York Times - 1933-12-6, Robert Coates Obituary - New York Times - 1973-2-10, Rachel Carley Files
- Associated Resource(s)
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