Helen Frankenthaler - Hardcover

Elderfield, John

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ISBN 10: 0810909162 ISBN 13: 9780810909168

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 1987

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Helen Frankenthaler is one of the most significant and influential artists of the past 45 years. An early pioneer of the stained-canvas method and one of the foremost lyrical colorists of our time, she has produced a body of work whose impact on contemporary art has been profound.

This landmark study offers an in-depth analysis of the year-by-year evolution of her art. In addition to paintings, Frankenthaler's studies on paper, prints, book covers, ceramic and metal sculpture, tapestries, set designs, and mural works are also featured. John Elderfield's text is enhanced by quotations from Frankenthaler and from other contemporary artists and critics who shed new light on her enormous achievement, resulting in the definitive work on the artist.

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About the Author:

John Elderfield is chief curator emeritus of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and a consultant at Gagosian Gallery. He is the author of many important books and of the principal monograph on Frankenthaler.

From Publishers Weekly:

A protean abstract expressionist painter, Helen Frankenthaler can be tender and delicate, powerfully archetypal, explosively lyrical, quietly introspective or mystically transcendental. Her splashy, symbol-laden Eden (1956) seems to conjure up the gates of paradise itself. Her loose, evocative 1950s style, a synthesis of Gorky, de Kooning and Pollock, gave way to '60s color-field experiments a la Mark Rothko, followed by witty, complex, ambivalent metaphors of the '70s and explorations in ceramic tile, steel or clay sculpture, and works on paper. Director of drawings at New York's Museum of Modern Art, Elderfield provides the most thorough survey of Frankenthaler's stylistic growth to date in this huge, sumptuous album. She can pack more meaning into one daub of color than do many artists into an entire canvas, and this volume's platesof incomparable qualityrender visible the texture and hue of the paint. Well over half of the 400 illustrations are in color.
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