"ELLSWORTH KELLY" par E.C. GOOSSEN. Editions The Museum Of Modern Art, New York. 1973. Grand in-8, dos droit, couverture souple cartonnée (état d'usage). 128 pages. Texte en anglais de E.C. Goossen illustré de 84 reproductions photographiques in-texte et hors texte dont 18 en couleurs d'œuvres d'Ellsworth Kelly, ainsi que 51 vignettes noir & blanc de notes bibliographiques.

 

"One of the most esteemed of contemporary American artists, Ellsworth Kelly remains a "loner". Throughout his career he has followed his own distinctively personal bent - while anticipating the work of the hard-edge, shaped-canvas, and colorfield painters and at the same time establishing a reputation in sculpture and printmaking. The present book offers a fresh, comprehensive view of his work to date. The noted-critic E.C. Goosen, in his presentation of the artist, draws upon numerous conversation with Ellsworth Kelly himself. He retraces the artist's development from the formative years at the Boston Museum School through the wartime experience and on to the six-year stay in Paris. He takes up the stages in the artist's subsequent career in New York, where by the late 1950s Kelly was already recognize as an artist of major stature. Goosen gives detailed analyses of some 30 canvas. Tracing the sources of these works, he directs our attention not so much to current aesthetic styles as to the world of Kelly's immediate experience: specific forms in nature, especially plants and birds; the shapes of pipes and chimneys on city walls; the strong, calm outlines of Mediterranean architecture; even the patterns of wartime camouflage..."

 

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