"BARNETT NEWMAN" par Ann TEMKIN. Editions Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphie en collaboration avec Tate Publishing, Londres. 2002. Imprimé au Japon. Fort petit in-4 carré, dos droit, couverture souple cartonnée illustrée en couleurs. 350 pages. Texte en anglais par Ann Temkin et Richard Shiff, avant-propos par Anne d'Harnoncourt et Nicholas Serota, illustré de très nombreuses reproductions photographiques couleurs et noir & blanc, in-texte et hors texte. Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre de l'exposition éponyme au Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphie du 24 Mars au 07 Juillet 2002 et la Tate Modern de Londres du 19 Septembre 2002 au 05 Janvier 2003.

 

"One of the most enduringly influential Abstract Expressionists, Barnett Newman (1905-1970) took the genre of a startling new sphere. His tough, spare, emotive paintings were misunderstood and reviled by most critics when they first appeared in 1950 but came to command wide respect and even veneration by the end of the 1960s. Seemingly simple on first viewing the paintings are in fact richly complicated and unexpectedly diverse. Newman aspired to breadth and nobility in his works, infusing them with deep meaning and producing a powerful physical presence through his mastery of expansive spatial effects and evocative colour. While pursuing his personal quest, he managed to challenge, and profoundly change, the parameters of painting…"

 

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