"HELEN FRANKENTHALER: PRINTS" par Ruth E. FINE. Editions Harry N. Abrams, New York, en collaboration avec la National Gallery of Art, Washington. 1993.
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HELEN FRANKENTHALER: PRINTS
"HELEN FRANKENTHALER: PRINTS" par Ruth E. FINE. Editions Harry N. Abrams, New York, en collaboration avec la National Gallery of Art, Washington. 1993. Imprimé en Espagne. Petit in-4, dos droit, couverture souple cartonnée à rabat illustrée en couleurs. 160 pages. Texte en anglais "Frankenthaler's Romance with Printmaking" par Ruth E. Fine, avant-propos de Earl A. Powell III, illustré de 76 reproductions photographiques couleurs hors texte. Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre de l'exposition éponyme itinérante à la National Gallery of Art, Washington, du 18 Avril au 06 Septembre 1993 ; San Diego Museum of Art du 25 Septembre au 28 Novembre 1993 ; Museum of Fine Art, Boston, du 05 Janvier au 13 Mars 1994 ; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, du 08 Avril au 17 Juin 1994.
"Helen Frankenthaler's radiant color, her sensuous touch, and her capacity to manipulate a rich variety of materials and print processes have been widely admired for more than three decades. We are delighted and honored to present a selected overview of Frankenthaler's prints at the National Gallery of Art, celebrating the artist's highly charged imagination and her virtuosity as a creator of beautiful pictorial space. Frankenthaler started making lithographs in the early 1960s, as one of the vanguard of painters and sculptors who inspired a new enthusiasm for contemporary printmaking, print viewing, print collecting. The artist has since broadened her repertoire to encompass virtually all of the traditional print processes - including etching, stencil, and woodcut - and she often combines several techniques in a single piece. Working in collaboration with master printers around the globe, Frankenthaler has expanded upon the methods by which artists have made prints for hundreds of years, dramatically transforming the viewer's awareness of the expressive possibilities of printed images. This exhibition starts with Frankenthaler's very first print, composed of calligraphic marks on an open field, and it closes with one of her most recent works, an expansive composition of densely layered forms, completed as this catalogue goes to press. The exhibition includes not only edition prints and one-of-a-kind prints but also related drawings and special proofs from Frankenthaler's personal archive. These unique works give special insight into the distinctive nature of the artist's working process…" Earl A. Powell III.
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