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Jack Whitten

Notes from the Woodshed

Katy Siegel Jack Whitten Glenn Ligon Matilde Guidelli-Guidi

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English
Hauser & Wirth
18 May 2025
A new, fully transcribed edition of the celebrated collection of Jack Whitten's wide-ranging, perceptive writings

When it was originally published in 2018, Notes from the Woodshed marked the first time that a book had been devoted to the writings of pioneering American artist Jack Whitten. Edited by art historian Katy Siegel, this new edition of the celebrated publication now presents a fully transcribed collection of Whitten's insightful, searching writings, alongside a new afterword in the form of a conversation between curators Matilde Guidelli-Guidi and Zoé Whitley and artist Glenn Ligon. Widely renowned for his experimental approach to painting, Whitten often turned to writing as away to investigate, understand, and grapple with his practice and his milieu. Taking its title from the heading that Whitten scrawled across many of his texts-a term borrowed from the world of jazz that means ""to practice in private""-Notes from the Woodshed is a fascinating, intimate insight into an artist at work.
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Afterword by:   , ,
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Imprint:   Hauser & Wirth
Country of Publication:   Switzerland
Edition:   Second edition
Dimensions:   Height: 241mm,  Width: 165mm, 
Weight:   1.200kg
ISBN:   9783907493113
ISBN 10:   3907493117
Pages:   592
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Jack Whitten (1939-2018) was born in Bessemer, Alabama, and studied art at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he became involved in civil rights demonstrations. From 1960 to 1964 he studied art at Cooper Union, New York, falling in with the abstract expressionists of the day (Willem de Kooning was a particular influence and mentor). The Whitney mounted a solo exhibition of his paintings in 1974; in 1983 the Studio Museum in Harlem held a 10-year retrospective. In 2014, a retrospective exhibition was organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, traveling to the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2015 and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 2015 and 2016. Whitten lived in Queens, New York, where he died on January 20, 2018.

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