The Prints of Ellsworth Kelly - Softcover

Axsom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0933920865 ISBN 13: 9780933920866

Publisher: Hudson Hills, 2000

Synopsis

Published in conjunction with a retrospective exhibition of Ellsworth Kelly's graphic work. The exhibit was organized by the American Federation of Arts and traveled to various museums in the United States from 1987 through 1990.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

In minimalist drawings of a daffodil, seaweed, a catalpa leaf or oranges, Kelly strives to capture the bare essence of what he sees. His geometric abstractions depict mysterious, intensely brilliant shapes meant to exist beyond time or personal circumstance. Colors on a Grid is a jazzy syncopation a la Mondrian, but more intuitive. Other color field experiments are subdued and modulated, while Kelly's abstracts of sharp, flat-edged objects in black, gray and white deal with purely formal concerns. Embossed and debossed edges in some of the prints create ambiguous effects. The Saint Martin Landscape series toys lamely with erotic imagery and surreal juxtapositions. The text of this catalogue of a traveling exhibition curated by Axsom is set mostly in a soft gray type that is very difficult to read.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Hudson Hills
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0933920865
• ISBN 13: 9780933920866
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 201