Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible - Hardcover

Baum, Kelly; Bayer, Andrea; Wagstaff, Sheena

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1588395863 ISBN 13: 9781588395863

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2016

Synopsis

This groundbreaking book explores the evolving concept of unfinishedness as essential to understanding art movements from the Renaissance to the present day. Unfinished features more than 200 works, created in a variety of media, by artists ranging from Leonardo, Titian, Rembrandt, Turner, and Cezanne to Picasso, Warhol, Twombly, Freud, Richter, and Nauman. What unites these works, across centuries and media, is that each one displays some aspect of being unfinished. Essays and case studies by major contemporary scholars address this key concept from the perspective of both the creator and the viewer, probing the impact that this long artistic trajectory-which can be traced back to the first century-has had on modern and contemporary art. The book explores the degrees to which instances of incompleteness were accidental or intentional, experimental or conceptual. Also included are illuminating interviews with contemporary artists, including Tuymans, Celmins, and Marden, and parallel considerations of the unfinished in literature and film. The result is a multidisciplinary approach and thought-provoking analysis that provide valuable insight into the making, meaning, and critical reception of the unfinished in art.

About this title

Review:

Well worth buying for the sake of its scholarly insights, and I learnt a good deal from its essayists This interesting volume and exhibition gives us plenty of room to ponder. Philip Hensher, Spectator--Philip Hensher"Spectator" (04/30/2016)"

"Well worth buying for the sake of its scholarly insights, and I learnt a good deal from its essayists... This interesting volume and exhibition gives us plenty of room to ponder."--Philip Hensher, Spectator--Philip Hensher"Spectator" (04/30/2016)

About the Author:

Andrea Bayer is Jayne Wrightsman Curator in the Department of European Paintings, Kelly Baum is curator, and Sheena Wagstaff is Leonard A. Lauder Chairman, both in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, all at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1588395863
• ISBN 13: 9781588395863
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320