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Book Description: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelpha, 2002. Soft Cover. Book Condition: New. 10 x 12 Inches. New copy still in publisher's shrinkwrap. No markings. 351 pp. 109+ color plates. This catalog surveys the breadth of abstract expressionist Barnett Newman's career from his founding role in the New York School in the 1940s to his key influence on both minimalism and conceptual art in the 1960s. Featuring more than 100 of his paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures, the book also offers significant scholarly findings based on the archives of the Barnett Newman Foundation. Despite the apparent simplicity of his signature, the vertical linear motif that came to be known as the "zip," Newman's art is richly complicated and unexpectedly diverse. Here in color plates are such masterpieces as Onement 1 (1948), the series Stations of the Cross (1958–66), and the monumental sculpture Broken Obelisk (1967)."Newman (1905-70), the son of Jewish Polish immigrants, worked slowly and contemplatively, unlike his frenzied friend, Jackson Pollock. He made a modest number of paintings and had few major exhibitions, yet by virtue of his 'shockingly minimal' paintings and eloquently radical theories about art (he was as loquacious as his paintings were quiet), was a phenomenally influential creative force. [A] marvelously evocative catalog in which stunning reproductions are matched with biographical and critical essays and other valuable documentation. [Ann] Temkin and her contributors illuminate the thought and emotion that went into Newman's deceptively simple paintings, large fields of deep, textured color dramatically divided by vertical lines, or 'zips.' Newman's restrained yet vibrant paintings are just the sort of modern art people love to mock—in fact, he drolly collected cartoons poking fun at abstract painting but his work, essential and transcendent, embodies a genuine quest for liberty and spiritual insight." - Booklist. Bookseller Inventory # 039262

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