Morris Louis: The Museum of Modern Art, New York - Hardcover

Elderfield, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870704184 ISBN 13: 9780870704185

Publisher: Little, Brown, 1986

Synopsis

Presents a collection of the work of this Abstract Expressionist artist and discusses his career, techniques, and contributions

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Language Notes:

Text: French, German

From Publishers Weekly:

Louis's huge color-field paintings are modern icons. Long streaks of pure color jostle against each other, creating new energies. In his "Unfurled" series, the sheer emptiness of the center of the canvas makes the few draped color lines seem like heroic acts of triumph over nothingness. His gauze-like, lyrical "Veils" are bursting with potentiality, yet not of this world. In Elderfield, a curator at the Museum of Modern Art, Louis has found the ideal interpreter. His minute analyses of how the viewer responds to a Louis painting give full attention to their poetic and even spiritual qualities, their roots in Symbolism, their associations with light, air, fire and water. This catalogue of a traveling exhibition makes a convincing case for the view that Louis wedded Mediterranean flatness to glaring American light in works of curious power and intensity.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0870704184
• ISBN 13: 9780870704185
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 191