This comprehensive monograph, authored by art historian Richard Shiff, serves as a multifaceted interpretation of Jack Whitten's art-making and philosophy of life. Vividly illustrated and ranging freely through the course of the artist's six-decade career, Shiff's text illuminates the distinctive character of Whitten's thought and the art it generated. Informed by the artist's extensive writings as well as by personal conversations, Shiff traces Whitten's collaboration of mind and hand, the source of his singular paintings and sculptures.