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Black Paintings: Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella
HATJE CANTZ

Hardcover, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 204 pgs / 64 color / 122 bw. | 1/1/2007 | Not available
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Black Paintings: Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Frank StellaBlack Paintings: Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Edited by Stephanie Rosenthal.

In the late 1940s, several prominent artists of the New York School--among them Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko and Frank Stella--were intently studying the color black. That work, interrelated but not collaborative, resulted in an astonishing number of almost monochromatic black paintings, which today are considered treasures of many major collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art's. For the first time, Black Paintings gathers all of the best of the title artist's black works together: textured black, striped black, blue-black, brown-black, black-black. In thorough illustration and thoughtful analysis, it sheds light on the differences between these postwar works as well as their commonalities. For Frank Stella and Robert Rauschenberg, black was a way to disappear into something new, a way to a new artistic vocabulary. For Mark Rothko, it stood for emptiness and nothingness; it asked the spectator to reflect back on it. For Ad Reinhardt, it offered denial and invisibility. Each artist's black portfolio reflects a breakthrough or transition in his own work, and, combined, they represent a larger moment of transition. The Black Paintings marked both a beginning and an end: the end of painting as illusion, as a window onto the world, and the beginning of painting as the mode for the creation of self-sufficient perceptual objects--a change that granted new roles to both artist and viewer.

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 204 pgs / 64 color / 122 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2007 p. 48   

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ISBN 9783775718608 TRADE
List Price: $60.00 CDN $70.00

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STATUS: Out of print | 11/28/2010

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