form, color, illumination: Suzan Frecon painting (Menil Collection (YUP)) - Hardcover

Josef Helfenstein; Matthias Frehner; With Sarah Eckhardt; Ulrich Loock; And Lawrence Rinder

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300125526 ISBN 13: 9780300125528

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This is the first major exploration of the works of American abstract painter and watercolourist Suzan Frecon (b. 1941), critically acclaimed for her sensitive arrangement of colour, form, and texture, and for the philosophical resonance of her art. By restricting herself to nonrepresentational forms, earth-based colours, and, in the case of her watercolours, 'found' pieces of paper, Frecon achieves an unequaled sense of balance and openness in her work. The book features ten oil paintings and thirty watercolours dating from the late 1990s to 2007. form, color, illumination celebrates the uniqueness of Frecon's painting and articulates how her work distinguishes itself within the history of abstract painting. The authors describe in-depth how her artistic process and materials are an integral part of her focus and aesthetic. Included is an essay revealing the 'ethics' of her aesthetics - an argument for abstraction and an attention to truth that is not divorced from social and environmental concerns.

About this title

About the Author

Ulrich Loock is deputy director of the Museu Serralves in Porto, Matthias Frehner is Director of the Kunstmuseum Bern, Lawrence Rinder is dean of graduate studies at the California College of the Arts, and Sarah Eckhardt is Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Edition details

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300125526
• ISBN 13: 9780300125528
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 116