Declaring Space: Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein

Michael Auping

ISBN 10: 0929865286 / ISBN 13: 9780929865287

Published by Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, 2007

About this Item

New softcover in matte printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. (8.5 x 0.75 x 10.5 inches) Includes photo plates, notes, and a bibliography. 176 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In the decades immediately following World War II, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Lucio Fontana, and Yves Klein each explored the critical subject of space in abstract art. The resulting paintings, sculptures, installations, and performances brought to abstraction a new psychological, philosophical, and formal depth. Richly illustrated with reproductions of the works in the exhibition and evocative photographs of the artists at work, this catalogue includes excerpts from the artists' writings and an essay by exhibition curator Michael Auping. Taken together, these elements gives readers a sense of the ethos, excitement, and broader philosophical meaning of this era in twentieth-century art, an era that was key in laying the foundation for the dramatic and expansive sense of space inherited by artists today.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Declaring Space: Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein
• Publisher: Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0929865286
• ISBN 13: 9780929865287
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art: Artists

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Synopsis

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth has produced a catalogue of a recent exhibition of work by Rothko, Newman, Fontana and Klein. Along with plates of many of the exhibits there are articles about the artists and in their own words. This is a lovely overview of four of the chief artists of the mid-century abstract movement and their ways of using space. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About the Author

MICHAEL AUPING is a renowned scholar of abstract expressionism. He is currently chief curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. He is the author of Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth (Prestel).