1969 Barnett Newman by Thomas B. Hess and Barnett Newman Softcover

Description: Softcover 91 Pages 6.5” x 8” Damage to cover & First 8 pages top right corner see photo 5 FRONTISPIECE: Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue II. 1967. Oil on canvas, 120 x 102 in. 1969 by Thomas B. Hess Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 69-15718 Published simultaneously in Canada by The Ryerson Press, Toronto Printed in the United States of America Designed by The Bert Clarke Design Group Published By Walker & Company A Division Of Walker Publishing Company, Inc. In Association With M. KNOEDLER & CO., INC., NEW YORK BARNETT NEWMAN by Thomas B. Hess One of the most important artists of our time, Barnett Newman has played a major role in the development of abstract color field painting. He was among the first painters to make monumental abstract paintings, and his color-saturated canvases and use of thestripe have become almost legendary. Newman's great and intimate lyrical paintings anticipated and influenced many artists of the fifties and sixties, who acknowledge him as a master. In writing of his own work, he describes at the same time the new, exalted vision that has overtaken much of the contemporary art world: "We are creating images whose reality is self-evident and which are devoid of the props and crutches that evoke associations with outmoded images, both sublime and beautiful. We are freeing ourselves of the impediments of memory, association, nostalgia, legend, myth ... The image we produce is the self-evident one of revelation, real and concrete, that can be understood by anyone who will look at it without the nostalgic glasses of history." In this, the first book to be written about Newman, Thomas B. Hess, well-known critic and editor of Art News magazine, has made a penetrating analysis of Newman's oeuvre, tracing its development year by year, with a special section devoted to the works since 1959. Newman's importance for today's art scene and the value of his work and writings for other artists receive particular emphasis. Nine color illustrations of his most recent works are among the many reproductions included in this volume. Jacket Illustration: Treble. 1960. Oil, 20¼× 6¾ in. Walker & Company, 720 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10019

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