Brice Marden
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
Few artists have so profoundly redefined the boundaries of minimalist and gestural abstraction as Brice Marden, and this authoritative monograph, published by Michael Werner in Köln, presents a rigorous critical examination of his work. Written by Wilfried Dickhoff, the volume chronicles Marden's evolution from his early monochromatic encaustic panels of the 1960s through to the fluid, calligraphic networks of line that would come to define his later career, situating his practice within the broader currents of post-war American art. Dickhoff argues with intellectual precision for Marden's unique position at the intersection of Eastern philosophical thought, classical Western painting traditions, and the radical formal concerns of his contemporaries. The text illuminates the spiritual and aesthetic tensions that animate Marden's canvases — the push and pull between restraint and expression, surface and depth — leaving the reader to wonder just how much more the silence of paint on canvas can be made to say.
Author: Wilfried Dickhoff
Format: Hardback
Published: 1989, Michael Werner in Köln
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
Few artists have so profoundly redefined the boundaries of minimalist and gestural abstraction as Brice Marden, and this authoritative monograph, published by Michael Werner in Köln, presents a rigorous critical examination of his work. Written by Wilfried Dickhoff, the volume chronicles Marden's evolution from his early monochromatic encaustic panels of the 1960s through to the fluid, calligraphic networks of line that would come to define his later career, situating his practice within the broader currents of post-war American art. Dickhoff argues with intellectual precision for Marden's unique position at the intersection of Eastern philosophical thought, classical Western painting traditions, and the radical formal concerns of his contemporaries. The text illuminates the spiritual and aesthetic tensions that animate Marden's canvases — the push and pull between restraint and expression, surface and depth — leaving the reader to wonder just how much more the silence of paint on canvas can be made to say.