Jack Bush: Coping and Coming of Age in the 1960s

Abstract

This essay re-evaluates the disavowed relationship between the advertising career and colour field paintings of the Canadian artist Jack Bush (1909-77). Bush’s belated transition out of the world of graphic design uniquely equipped him to fulfill the efforts of the American formalist critic Clement Greenberg (1909-94) to buttress the remnants of the historical avant-garde through a strategic rationalization of pop cultural forms and commercial techniques. The resulting co-optation reflected transformations in the Canadian advertising industry during the 1960s, which mirrored developments in the United States in accommodating the symbols of popular protest movements to re-entrench establishment interests. The resemblance between certain late paintings by Bush and the conventions of psycho-medical modelling and other graphic instruments deployed by Madison Avenue researchers troubles uncritical readings of the formalist agenda usually said to have informed these artworks.

Análisis bibliométrico de la relación arte y diseño gráfico

“…Se concluye que dentro de los 461 artículos analizados los estudios bibliométricos enfocados para determinar relaciones entre áreas de estudio son eficientes por la gran información que presentan en cada uno de las investigaciones analizadas (Lauder, 2015). A través de este método se obtuvieron diversos parámetros entre ellos los autores más citados como Bhansali, Kang, Kim y Li; en un 80% el idioma que prevalece al redactar artículos científicos es el inglés, seguidamente de un 19% en idioma francés, los principales países que contribuyen a estos estudios son China, Taiwán, Singapur, Hong Kong y Australia.…”