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"Black in Time I" (1980) is reproduced from
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/27/2018

Jack Whitten and the rock-bottom meaning of universality

"Art must satisfy a very specific personal longing for universality," Jack Whitten wrote in 1979. "A desire to feel completely satisfied. A part of the total structure of things. Abstraction is the only possibility for this type of satisfaction, with figuration we are forever depicting something other than the rock-bottom meaning of universality. For this technological age abstraction is the language." Black in Time I (1980) is reproduced from More Dimensions Than You Know: Jack Whitten, 1979–1989, published by Hauser & Wirth.

More Dimensions Than You Know: Jack Whitten, 1979–1989

More Dimensions Than You Know: Jack Whitten, 1979–1989

Hauser & Wirth Publishers
Flexi, 9.5 x 12 in. / 104 pgs / illustrated throughout.

$35.00  free shipping





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