Art History – Mud Flat Press

Post-Postmodern Postscript to What the Heck is a Frame-Pedestal Aesthetic?

July 5, 2020 by Alec Clayton

I have posted announcements of the upcoming publication of my book What the Heck is a Frame-Pedestal Aesthetic? on this blog and on my personal writing blog and on Facebook. The book is an updated version of my graduate thesis written in 1970. I had to manually type the 50-something pages and then add a … Read more

Coming Soon: What the Heck is a Frame-Pedestal Aesthetic? 1960s Revolution in American Art Revisited

May 25, 2022June 11, 2020 by Mud Flat Press

It was 1970. Abstract-Expressionism had dominated American and world art for almost three decades. For thousands of years before that, art had been pictures on walls and sculptures on pedestals meant to be admired for their beauty. Revolutionary new approaches to art during the 1960s changed all that. Alec Clayton’s graduate thesis with the academic … Read more