Wolf Kahn - Hardcover

Spring, Justin; Finkelstein, Louis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810963221 ISBN 13: 9780810963221

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996

Synopsis

In the 1950s and 1960s a group of young artists forged a fresh, representational art that made use of the Abstract Expressionists' spontaneous brushwork and brilliant colour to document the world. One of the leaders of this group, Wolf Kahn, specialized in landscape painting, which he has developed over the last 40 years. This book aims to demonstrate how his use of colour has placed him at the forefront of American representational art. The text presents an overview of Kahn's life and career - his childhood in Germany, his study at the Hans Hofman school, his early success as a latter-day Expressionist, and his ten years as a painter of austere, tonalist canvases, before he turned to the luminous landscapes that established his reputation. There is also an analytical essay by the painter and critic Louis Finkelstein which discusses the origins and value of Kahn's fusion of abstraction and representation.

About this title

About the Author

Justin Spring is a novelist, art critic, and writer specialising in twentieth-century American art and culture. His features, stories, and reviews have appeared the New York Times. Karen Wilkin is an independent curator and critic specialising in twentieth-century modernism. She has organised numerous exhibitions internationally and teaches in the Master of Fine Arts program of the New York Studio School. She is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal. The late Louis Finkelstein, artist critic and Professor Wolf Kahn, noted artist and teacher, has exhibited his work throughout the United States and abroad.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810963221
• ISBN 13: 9780810963221
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 164