"KENNETH NOLAND. PAINTINGS 1958-1968". Catalogue conçu par Matthew POLHAMUS. Editions Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. 2011.
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KENNETH NOLAND. PAINTINGS 1958-1968
"KENNETH NOLAND. PAINTINGS 1958-1968". Catalogue conçu par Matthew POLHAMUS. Editions Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. 2011. in-8, couverture cartonnée illustrée en couleurs. 76 pages. Texte en anglais, illustré de reproductions photographiques couleurs d'oeuvres de Noland. Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre de l'exposition éponyme à la galerie Mitchell-Innes & Nash de New York, du 27 Mars au 30 Avril 2011.
"Kenneth Noland's early paintings of concentric circles, chevrons, diamonds, and horizontal stripes, completed between 1958 and 1970, have a legitimate claim to being the cleanest, clearest, most straightforward works of art ever produced by an American painter. With no immediately recognizable subject latter, no illusionary depth, no luscious impasto, a narrow range of color, and radically restricted drawing, these taut, severe, now-iconic works trumpet the immediate and the non-manipulated over the slowly evolved and consciously crafted. Cool, anonymous-looking, and insistently democratic, they appear to embrace the self-evident and the simplistic at the expense of the savvy and the sophisticated..."
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