Color Creates Light: Studies with Hans Hofmann

Tina Dickey

ISBN 10: 0986651109 / ISBN 13: 9780986651106

Published by TRILLISTAR INTERARTS, INC., 2011

About this Item

The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Color Creates Light: Studies with Hans Hofmann
• Publisher: TRILLISTAR INTERARTS, INC.
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0986651109
• ISBN 13: 9780986651106
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

Color Creates Light: Studies with Hans Hofmann brings together the man, the schools, the painting, the ideas, and the teaching. Jed Perl of The New Republic calls this book "enormously important... nothing less than the missing chapter in the history of the period," for Hofmann's decade of painting in Paris prior to World War I, combined with his observations of the masters of all cultures, enabled him to explain Cubism to the avant-garde and catalyzed the later Abstract Expressionism.

In the ateliers of German emigrant Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) in Munich, New York and Provincetown, talented students later to become some of the most significant artists and educators of the time rubbed shoulders with critics, collectors, and curators, who in turn transmitted and transmuted Hofmann s ideas across Europe, America, Canada, and beyond. From how Hofmann taught to what he taught, artists talk shop about the inner workings of the visual language, required reading for those engaged in creative composition, whether visual, verbal, musical, architectural, cinematic, or choreographic.

About the Author

Artist and author, Tina Dickey studied painting with former Hofmann students prior to conducting an oral history now in the Archives of American Art. During her nine years as Editor of the Hans Hofmann Catalogue Raisonne (1997-2006), she was chief research consultant for the PBS documentary Hans Hofmann: Artist/Teacher, Teacher/Artist (2002), while editing the journals of painter Myron Stout (Midmarch Arts Press, 2005). She has contributed to numerous books and exhibition catalogs related to Hofmann and his former students in the United States, Canada, Spain and Germany.