Stanley Whitney (Contemporary Painters) - Hardcover

Abrams, Matthew Jeffrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848222513 ISBN 13: 9781848222519

Verlag: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Since the mid-1970s, American painter Stanley Whitney has been exploring the formal possibilities of colour within grids of multi-coloured blocks. Matthew Jeffrey Abrams's thoughtful book, the first full monograph on the artist, highlights Whitney's unique and sophisticated understanding of line and colour and his commitment to abstract painting over four decades of consistent practice. Abrams brings together Whitney's personal and professional narratives to weave a chronological analysis of the work and the artist's wider cultural contribution. Born in Philadelphia in 1946, Whitney moved to New York in 1968, and under the guidance of Philip Guston he began to experiment with abstraction, drawn to the basic formal qualities of Abstract Expressionism, the pure chroma of the Color Field movement, and the minimalist approach of such artists as Donald Judd. Steadfastly pursuing abstraction at a time when critical interest was focussed on figurative art and photography, Whitney has not received the critical recognition due to him until late in his career. This book affirms his outstanding achievement.

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Matthew Jeffrey Abrams is a writer and art historian. In 2017 he received a PhD from Yale in the History of Art, where he was the A. Bartlett Giamatti Fellow at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, BOMB Magazine, Conjunctions and Burlington Magazine.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1848222513
• ISBN 13: 9781848222519
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 143
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