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Barnett Newman

By [Newman, Barnett] Temkin, Ann (editor) / Schiff, Richard.

Barnett Newman Books

Barnett Newman

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[Newman, Barnett] Temkin, Ann (editor) / Schiff, Richard. Barnett Newman. Philadelphia and London, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Tate Publishing, 2002. 26 cm x 30 cm. Portrait frontispiece, 351 pages. Numerous monochrome and 180 colour illustrations. Softcover [publisher's original] with titling to spine and front board. Corners slightly creased but otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior in excellent condition throughout. Includes, for example, the following: foreword / 'Introduction' by Ann Temkin / 'Barnett Newman on Exhibition' by Ann Temkin / 'Whiteout: The Not-Influence Newman Effect / Catalogue - with contributions by Ann Temkin, Suzanne Penn and Melissa Ho / Chronology by Melissa Ho / Selected Bibliography / Index of Illustrated Works by Barnett Newman etc This beautifully produced book was published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Barnett Newman' that was organised by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Tate Modern, London in 2002 and 2003 - the first comprehensive exhibition of his work in three decades. Two groundbreaking essays by prominent scholars survey Newman's career from his founding role in the New York School in the 1940s to his key influence on both Minimalism and conceptual art in the 1960s. Discussed at length are such Newman masterpieces as 'Onement I' (1948), the series 'Stations of the Cross' (1958-66), and the monumental sculpture 'Broken Obelisk (1967). Barnett Newman (January 29, 1905 – July 4, 1970) was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters. His paintings are existential in tone and content, explicitly composed with the intention of communicating a sense of locality, presence, and contingency. His tough, spare, emotive paintings were misunderstood and reviled by most critics when they first appeared in 1950 but came to comma..
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Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2002
Publisher:
Philadelphia and London, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Tate Publishing, 2002.
Languages:
Published: English
ISBN10:
1854374370
Weight:
360 g
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