Robert Coates (critic)
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Robert Myron Coates (1897–1973) was an American writer and an art critic for the New Yorker. He coined the term, "Abstract Expressionism" in 1946 in reference to the works of Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. As a writer of fiction, he is considered a member of the Lost Generation, having spent part of his life abroad in Europe. His first three novels are highly experimental, drawing upon Dada, surrealism and expressionism for their effect. His last two novels are examples of crime fiction in which the narrator presents a psychopathological case study of the protagonist.
Nowadays, Coates is best known for The Outlaw Years (1930), which deals with the history of the land pirates of the Natchez Trace. It is the only work by the author that is still in print. He was survived by his second wife, Astrid Peters Coates (1910–1995), his son, Anthony (from his marriage to Elsa Kirpal, which had ended in divorce); and his stepdaughter, Ingrid Waldron.
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[edit] Bibliography
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[edit] Novels
The Eater of Darkness (1926)
Yesterday's Burdens (1933)
The Bitter Season (1946)
Wisteria Cottage (1948)
The Farther Shore (1955)
[edit] Short story collections
All The Year Round (1943)
The Hour After Westerly (1957)
The Man Just Ahead Of You (1965)
[edit] Short stories
Coates, Robert (29 November 1947). "The law". The New Yorker 23 (41): 41–43.
[edit] Non-fiction
The Outlaw Years (1930)
The View From Here (1960)
Beyond the Alps (1961)
South of Rome (1965) The Darkness of the Night
[edit] Articles
- Coates, Robert (15 January 1949). "The Art Galleries: Blume, Delaunay, Glackens". The New Yorker 24 (47): 48–49. Reviews Peter Blume at the Durlacher Gallery, Robert Delaunay at the Sidney Janis Gallery, and William Glackens at the Kraushaar Galleries.
- Coates, Robert (28 January 1950). "The Art Galleries: Rembrandt and Juan Gris". The New Yorker 25 (49): 60, 62. Reviews Rembrandt at the Wildenstein Gallery; Gris at the Buchholz Gallery.
[edit] Further reading
Pierce, Constance. "Gertrude Stein and her Thoroughly Modern Protege." Modern Fiction Studies 42.3 (Autumn 1996): 607-25.
---. "Language • Silence • Laughter: The Silent Film and the 'Eccentric' Modernist Writer." SubStance 16.1 (1987): 59-75.
Roza, Mathilde. "Following Strangers: The Life and Literary Career of Robert Myron Coates (1897–1973)." U. of Nijmegen Diss., 2005.
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