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Udo Kittelmann Sven Beckstette

Jack Whitten

Udo Kittelmann,  Sven Beckstette

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English
Prestel
01 June 2019
Art & design styles: Abstract Expressionism; Individual artists, art monographs
A monograph on Abstract artist Jack Whitten, who strove throughout his life to connect across cultural, historic, and artistic boundaries. Jack Whitten's alluring and inventive paintings are part of the collections of some of the world's most prominent museums and galleries - but this profoundly inventive artist worked primarily under the radar for most of his life. This book, conceived with Whitten's collaboration shortly before his death in 2018, brings his work into focus, highlighting in particular the themes of history, politics, science, and music. As a young man in Alabama, Whitten was angered by the racism he experienced. When he moved to New York City, he was inspired by the Abstract Expressionists dominating the art scene there. This book examines Whitten's other early influences - Arshile Gorky, early surrealism, and figurative expressionism - to trace how the artist never stopped experimenting and innovating. His riotously colorful oils gave way to massive acrylic Slab paintings. These were followed by luminous mosaics that capture and redirect light, his Black Monoliths series, memorialising black heroes, and his final works, which embrace technology and the digital age. AUTHORS: Udo Kittlemann is Director of the Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Sven Beckstette is Research Assistant at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum fur Gegenwart - Berlin. 96 colour images
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Imprint:   Prestel
Country of Publication:   Germany
Dimensions:   Height: 295mm,  Width: 235mm,  Spine: 26mm
Weight:   1.488kg
ISBN:   9783791358628
ISBN 10:   3791358626
Pages:   208
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Unspecified

UDO KITTELMANN is Director of the Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. SVEN BECKSTETTE is Curator at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum fur Gegenwart - Berlin.

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