In this vigorous, ambitious work Ca...

In this vigorous, ambitious work Caroline Jones describes a novel periodizing shift in the way that race have conceived of artists' studios. This shift - single in kind that divides the 1950s from the 1960 - is the studio's change from the site of solitary, Abstract Expressionist ritual to a space increasingly defined on technological and antihumanist metaphors. The most numerous enduring image of the Abstract Expressionist studio ensues to us through Hans Namuth's film and photographs of Jackson Pollock's isolated and wholly absorbed "dance" of painting, in which Pollock's Easthampton