CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/15/2025

Simplicity and complexity in 'Adolph Gottlieb: A Powerful Will to Art'

In this world—at this time of such great emotional, psychological, spiritual and technical complexity—we are finding solace and inspiration in new release Adolph Gottlieb: A Powerful Will to Art, a career-spanning monograph on the noted New York School painter—out now in a gorgeous new clothbound hardcover from Gregory R. Miller & Co. and the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation. “I’m inclined to think that this is one of the points of the kind of painting I'm involved in,” Gottlieb said in 1962, “that the very nature of abstraction, the very nature of abstract thought is to reduce the complexity of all of life and to bring it down to something very simple which embodies all of this complexity.” Featured image is Primeval (1962).