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Hardcover. Condition: NEW. Dust Jacket Condition: NEW. 1st. Cloth, 335 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 26 cm. Published in conjunction with the presentation of Robert Ryman as Dia:Chelsea, New York, December 9, 2015 to July 30, 2016, and the ongoing installation of Robert Ryman's work at Dia:Beacon, Beacon, New York. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Several of the essays in this publication grew out of a symposium that was held at Dia:Beacon on March 12, 2016, and a symposium that was held at Dia:Chelsea on May 21, 2016. "This volume is a comprehensive study highlighting the interplay of context and meaning in Robert Ryman's work. Featuring new photography and original essays by a formidable array of scholars and curators, the book is the most expansive and thorough investigation of the work of American painter Robert Ryman in over two decades. Arguing that the relationships between his paintings are key to understanding his diverse output, the book offers more faithful reproductions and subtler details of the paintings than have previously been available, and attends closely to the artist's own strategies of display. Ryman's paintings are readily identified by their predominantly achromatic surfaces, but his exploration of the values and effects of white was never limited to paint. His experimentations with canvas, board, paper, aluminum, fiberglass, and Plexiglas have evolved into a material vocabulary as revolutionary as his use of white. The texts featured here reflect on the importance of Ryman's practice to contemporary art: Robert Storr, curator of Ryman's 1993 retrospective, places the painter in historical context while Courtney J. Martin, curator of his 2015-16 exhibition at Dia Chelsea, looks at Ryman's three-dimensional works. Drawings scholar Allegra Pesenti investigates his drawing practice; music historian John Szwed traces the influence of jazz in Ryman's early works; and artist Charles Gaines asks what, in a Ryman, is real." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Preface, by Jessica Morgan; In the American grain, by Robert Storr; Robert Ryman: Dia:Chelsea; Robert Ryman: musician, painter, by John Szwed; Robert Ryman 1958-1966: an anecdotal history by an ex-wife and longtime admirer, by Lucy R. Lippard; Robert Ryman's reality: between literalism and expression, by Charles Gaines; Exuberance and exhaustion: the European transformation of Robert Ryman's career, by Philipp Kaiser; Learning Robert Ryman's language: thoughts from a conservator, by Sandra Amann; Robert Ryman, Dia:Beacon; Robert Ryman, circa 1972, by Suzanne Hudson; Exposures: Ryman and time, by Kirsten Swenson; Painting objects: Robert Ryman's three-dimensional paintings, by Courtney J. Martin; Robert Ryman at Dia, 1988-89, by Gary Garrels; Same old: Robert Ryman's repetitions, by Jo Applin. Size: 4to. Collectible.