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This catalogue to the exhibition at the Kunstverein St. Gallen focuses on the work of American artist Robert Mangold, who occupies a key position in today's painting world. This broad survey is of considerable significance within the context of discourse on contemporary non-relational painting, and presents the Mangold's paintings from 1984 to 1997 in full-color well reproduced plates.
Enth. u. a.: S. 74: Concrete art (1936-49) / Max Bill. - S. 74-77: The mathematical approach in contemporary art (1949) / Max Bill. - S. 301-304: Dieter Roth.
Katalog over 1980'ernes kunst, som giver en karakteristik af 50 amerikanske og europæiske kunstnere
The majestic abstract paintings of the accomplished contemporary artist.
This first book-length study of Robert Ryman argues that his work is a continuous experiment in the possibilities of painting. In this first book-length study of Robert Ryman, Suzanne Hudson traces the artist's production from his first paintings in the early 1950s, many of which have never been exhibited or reproduced, to his recent gallery shows. Ryman's largely white-on-white paintings represent his careful working over of painting's conventions at their most radically reduced. Through close readings of the work, Hudson casts Ryman as a painter for whom painting was conducted as a continuous personal investigation. Ryman's method—an act of “learning by doing”—as well as his concep...
"In this first book-length study of Robert Ryman, Suzanne Hudson traces the artist's production from his first paintings in the early 1950s, many of which have never been exhibited or reproduced, to his more recent gallery shows. Ryman's largely white-on-white paintings represent his careful working over of painting's conventions at their most radically reduced. Through close readings of the work, Hudson casts Ryman as a painter for whom painting was conducted as a continuous personal investigation. Ryman's method--an act of "learning by doing"--as well as his conception of painting as "used paint" set him apart from second-generation abstract expressionists, minimalists, or conceptualists. ...
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