Art as Art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt (Documents of Twentieth-Century Art) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520076702 ISBN 13: 9780520076709

Publisher: University of California Press, 1991

Synopsis

Ad Reinhardt is probably best known for his black paintings, which aroused as much controversy as admiration in the American art world when they were first exhibited in the 1950s. Although his ideas about art and life were often at odds with those of his contemporaries, they prefigured the ascendance of minimalism. Reinhardt's interest in the Orient and in religion, his strong convictions about the value of abstraction, and his disgust with the commercialism of the art world are as fresh and valid today as they were when he first expressed them.

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Review:

"Rose in the introduction suggests that Reinhardt's ultimate value is as 'a prophet of the realization that high art can only endure as spiritual art.' Well, maybe, but his copious writings are also exuberant, ironic, rancorous and parodistic and, as such, a marvelous commentary on the recent art world."--"The Nation

About the Author:

Barbara Rose is the author of books on Joan Miro, Claes Oldenburg, Lee Krasner, and Ellsworth Kelly and has twice received the College Art Association's Mather Award for distinguished criticism.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0520076702
• ISBN 13: 9780520076709
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Rose Barbara