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Clyfford Still

Door John P. O'Neill

Categorie
Schilderkunst
Boeknummer
#423134-AE29
Titel
Clyfford Still
Auteur
O'Neill, John P.
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New York : Harry N. Abrams
Jaar van uitgave
1979
ISBN10
0810916339
ISBN13
9780810916333
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original black cloth, dust jacket, numerous (foldable) illustrations (including photographs) in colour and b/w, oblong (circa 27x29cm).
Samenvatting
Clyfford Still is America's most important, most significant, and most daring artist. This painter, pursuing a course independent of the conventional apparatus of art dealers and galleries, almost never exhibits except under museum auspices. For these reasons a Clyfford Still exhibition is a major event in the art world, and a book on Clyfford Still is a major event in the world of publishing. The present volume, which records the 1979–80 exhibition of seventy-nine Still paintings, dating from 1942 to 1978, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art—the largest exhibition of his work ever held—is the most comprehensive book on Still's work and thus an important document of twentieth-century art. Although Still has always kept aloof from the stereotyping nomenclature of schools and... (Lees verder) movements, he has had a powerful impact on contemporary art. His monumental canvases—bold forms saturated with intense color—are of surpassing scale and power. It is easy to understand why Still prefers the extended coverage that is generally possible in a museum environment: his works are charged with a sustaining energy that relates them to one another over the almost forty years that their creation spans, and when viewed seriatim they convey a transcendent narrative quality. Each of the seventy-nine paintings in the Metropolitan Museum's exhibition is reproduced here as a full-page or fold-out color-plate and is fully documented. Many other major works by Still are illustrated in black and white. Notes by the artist, selected letters from his files, and a biographical outline are accompanied by documentary photographs. The book contains a preface by Philippe de Montebello, director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and an enlightening introduction by the eminent art critic Katharine Kuh.
Pagina's
222
Conditie
Goed — Spine dust jacket browned.
Prijs
€ 50,00

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