Rothko to Richter: Mark-Making in Abstract Painting from the Collection of Preston H. Haskell

Baum, Kelly

ISBN 10: 0300207840 / ISBN 13: 9780300207842

Published by Princeton University Art Museum, 2015

About this Item

Crisp pages unmarked. Vibrantly colored. Gray cloth boards pointed. Binding firm. Dust jacket minimally shelf worn.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rothko to Richter: Mark-Making in Abstract Painting from the Collection of Preston H. Haskell
• Publisher: Princeton University Art Museum
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300207840
• ISBN 13: 9780300207842
• Binding: Hardcover. 4to
• Edition: 1st/.
• Condition: Near fine.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine.
• Seller catalogs:
  • ART

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Synopsis

Featuring twenty-seven paintings created between 1950 and 1990 by some of the most important artists of the mid- to late 20th century, including Karel Appel, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Jack Goldstein, Hans Hofmann, Morris Louis, Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko, and Frank Stella, this book provides a window onto a moment of remarkable creative ferment, when the nature of abstract painting was being hotly contested. For the artists featured here, the debate around abstraction occurred largely at the level of technique, and to this end, they developed radically new ways to make marks that alternately emphasized or suppressed traces of the artist's touch. Beautiful reproductions are accompanied by insightful essays that examine how the works communicate the changing priorities of abstract art after World War II.

About the Author

Kelly Baum is Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Princeton University Art Museum. Hal Foster is Townsend Martin, Class of 1917, Professor of Art and Archaeology and co-director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University. Susan Stewart is Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities, professor of English, and director of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University. Eleanor Stoltzfus is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maryland.