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Franz Kline

Autor Harry F. Gaugh
en Limba Engleză Hardback – feb 1994

Găsim în acest volum o documentație vizuală impresionantă, alcătuită din 170 de reproduceri color și alb-negru care echilibrează un text analitic dens, rodul a două decenii de cercetare. Această monografie, semnată de Harry F. Gaugh, reușește să deconstruiască mitul „succesului peste noapte” al lui Franz Kline, oferindu-ne o perspectivă nuanțată asupra unui artist adesea redus la gesturile sale iconice de negru pe alb. Reținem fluiditatea cu care autorul navighează prin etapele de formare ale artistului, de la peisajele din Pennsylvania și studiile europene, până la mediul boem din Greenwich Village. Pe raftul de artă, alături de Mark Rothko, acest album se distinge prin rigoarea cu care tratează nu doar biografia, ci și materialitatea operei. În timp ce alte volume din sfera expresionismului abstract se concentrează pe metafizica culorii, Franz Kline acordă o atenție deosebită procesului tehnic. Structura cărții este una progresivă, ghidându-ne de la figurativul timpuriu — autoportrete și clovni — către abstracția radicală care l-a consacrat. Un element distinctiv este includerea capitolului despre tehnici și conservare, care ne permite să înțelegem complexitatea structurală a tușelor sale energetice, ce par la prima vedere spontane, dar ascund o construcție minuțioasă. Experiența de lectură este una senzorială; calitatea tipăriturii pe format hardback de la Abbeville Press evidențiază contrastul dramatic al lucrărilor sale. Tonul autorului este empatic, dar imparțial, integrând fragmente din corespondența privată și interviuri cu prietenii artistului pentru a recrea atmosfera New York-ului postbelic. Este o resursă esențială care completează tabloul marii picturi americane, situându-l pe Kline într-un dialog necesar cu figurile centrale ale epocii sale.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781558597709
ISBN-10: 1558597700
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 170 colour and b&w illustrations, notes, chronology, bibliography, index
Dimensiuni: 237 x 287 x 27 mm
Greutate: 1.39 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Abbeville Press
Locul publicării:United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această monografie este indispensabilă celor care doresc să depășească interpretările simpliste ale expresionismului abstract. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care Kline și-a transformat studiile academice într-un limbaj vizual revoluționar. Este o recomandare certă pentru colecționari și pasionați de istoria artei care caută o lucrare de referință ce îmbină analiza critică cu o bogată arhivă de imagini inedite.


Despre autor

Harry F. Gaugh este un istoric de artă recunoscut, a cărui carieră a fost marcată de o documentare exhaustivă a mișcării Abstract Expressionist. Expertiza sa este demonstrată în acest volum prin cei aproape 20 de ani dedicați studierii vieții și operei lui Franz Kline. Gaugh nu se limitează la analiza estetică, ci explorează contextul social și personal al artistului, utilizând surse primare precum scrisori și interviuri directe. Abordarea sa este considerată un etalon în scrierea istoriei artei, reușind să ofere singura monografie cuprinzătoare dedicată acestui pilon al picturii americane moderne.


Descriere scurtă

Acclaimed as the definitive volume on artist Franz Kline, this book provides firsthand accounts of his Bohemian life and powerful work.

A model of art-historical writing, Franz Kline is, remarkably, still the only available monograph on its subject. With its detailed yet thoroughly readable text and 170 illustrations (many published here for the first time), this book brings to light much new information about Kline, a leading figure among the Abstract Expressionists, and enriches our appreciation and understanding of his art. This book belongs on the book shelf of everyone with an interest in American painting.

Franz Kline's energetic black strokes on a white field are as recognizable as Jackson Pollock’s drips or Mark Rothko’s rectangles of glowing color. He spent years struggling to find a style for himself and then achieved "overnight success" with his dramatic black–and–white abstractions. They were, in fact, so successful that they overwhelmed every other aspect of Kline's art, and as a result he has been oversimplified and underestimated. Based on nearly 20 years of research, this seminal monograph provides a comprehensive view of Kline's life and work and reveals how unexpectedly complex they both were.

Using interviews with the artist's friends and critics, and quoting from his letters, the author, Harry F. Gaugh, has created an evocative portrait of Kline's evolution from ambitious art student, to penniless Greenwich Village artist painting murals in bars, to, finally, a mature artist in command of his own unique and hard-won style.

Cuprins

Table of Contents from: Franz Kline

Foreword by Millard F. Rogers, Jr.

Introduction

1. Studies: Lehighton, Boston, London

2. New York, Public and Private

3. Pennsylvania Landscape

4. Nijinsky, Self-Portraits, Clowns

5. Abstraction

6. Beyond Abstraction

7. Techniques and Conservation

Notes
Chronology
Exhibitions
Selected Bibliography
Public Collections
Acknowledgments
Lenders to the Exhibition
Index

Recenzii

Praise for Franz Kline:

"One of the best new books on postwar American art…A sympathetic, though unsparing, account of the artist's life is interwoven expertly with the history of his work, resulting in an exemplary study of a contemporary painter's career." — San Francisco Examiner–Chronicle

"The first book-length study on the artist. It is sharp and informative and it contains a good deal of new documentation." — The New York Times

"This monograph is well researched…and generously illustrated with good color plates. The chronology, notes, bibliography, and personal photographs are valuable resources." — Choice

Notă biografică

Harry F. Gaugh, an art historian specializing in postwar American art, taught at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, until his death in 1992. The leading authority on Franz Kline, Gaugh curated the landmark exhibition The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline in Retrospect. His other books include the volume on Willem de Kooning in Abbeville’s Modern Masters series.

Extras

Excerpt from Franz Kline

Foreword

Abstract Expressionism, an American movement, was a dominant international presence in painting during the 1950s and ‘60s. It artists turned away from regionalism, storytelling, and literalism that had previously characterized the art of this country. The New York School painters were never grouped formally, nor were they united by a homogeneous style, yet their paintings and drawings generally shared abstraction, large scale, and immediate assertiveness.

Franz Kline (1910–1962) was a giant figure among the Abstract Expressionists, His place in art and in history of twentieth-century painting has not previously been the subject of a major monograph nor an extensive exhibition showing such a wide range of high-quality work. We are grateful to Harry F. Gaugh, associate professor of art history at Skidmore College and noted scholar on Kline and de Kooning, for writing this study and for serving as guest curator of The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline in Retrospect.

The exhibition’s itinerary—the Cincinnati Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts—makes it accessible to appreciate audiences from east to west, and it introduces Kline to generations who have heard about this present-century “old master” but have never seen such an impressive array of his works. That so many private collections, museums, foundations, and corporations would part with their Kline paintings and drawings for the duration of the exhibition deserves our heartfelt thanks.

An exhibition on this scale would not be possible without significant financial support from several sources. We are exceedingly grateful to the Central Trust Company, the National Endowment for the Arts, and A.M. Kinney, Inc., for their generous contributions.

The coordinator of the monograph and exhibition and, indeed, the individual responsible for the initiation and implementation of this project was Denny T. Young, curator of painting at the Cincinnati Art Museum. We are indebted to her for all her efforts. We also greatly appreciate the assistance of Frances Martinabli, curatorial assistant, Painting Department, and the many others whose work has brought this project to fruition.

Millard F. Rogers, Jr.
Director, Cincinnati Art Museum