Bøger udgivet af Paul Kasmin Gallery

"Warhol's early drawings are characterized by a stylized reductivism or mannered simplicity that manages, like the artist's infrequent but affected speech, to say more in its special manner of saying less. In addition to their spare, magical, frequently uncanny otherworldliness, the one characteristic that most distinguished Warhol's early drawings from his peers' was the use of the blotted line technique," writes Todd Alden in his introduction to this focused volume. "Strange World: Drawings 1948-1959" includes an eclectic collection of Warhol's blotted-line drawings, created between 1948 and 1959. These works illustrate Warhol's preference for the deliberately incomplete or unresolved image and often feature unpredictable trajectories of color. A familiar cast from Warhol's commercial art and illustrated books--friends, lovers, small children and the anonymous faces of office workers--are presented in concert with charged paper surfaces.

"Puckette has taken something that seems so simple and demonstrated its true complexities--the line ... the artist's work redefines the traditional role that geometry plays in art." -CulturedThis is the first major monograph on Brooklyn-based painter and sculptor Elliott Puckette (born 1967), long acclaimed for her abstract paintings of elegant lines wandering freely through sparse, monochromatic space. "I was always interested in graphology," she told a recent interviewer, "not necessarily what someone was writing but reading into the psychology of how it's written." In recent years, the artist has also experimented with sculpture, lifting her tangling lines off the canvas and suspending them in the air. This catalog charts Puckette's career in painting and sculpture, including photographs from her foundry as well as installation images of her sculptures. Texts by art historian David Anfam, one of the most significant voices in scholarship on abstraction, and curator Stephanie Cristello and artist Maya Lin also figure in the book, as well as a rare interview with the artist herself.

A concise introduction to the later work of the self-taught American Surrealist artist and authorAmerican Surrealist artist Dorothea Tanning (1910‿2012) worked across painting, sculpture, printmaking, installation and writing over the course of seven decades, producing one of the 20th century‿s most enigmatic oeuvres. Tanning‿s work conjures dreamlike worlds that straddle the hazy border between figuration and abstraction, pioneering a unique prismatic formal language that resonates keenly today. This fully illustrated catalog highlights Tanning‿s works created between the 1950s and ‿90s, a particularly fruitful period in the artist‿s career, and traces her stylistic arc through over 20 significant paintings drawn from interrelated phases of the artist‿s practice. Scholars Mary Ann Caws, Victoria Carruthers and Kate Conley contribute essays to the volume; additionally, it reproduces Tanning‿s 1986 essay “To Paint,â€? a poetic and impassioned manifesto on painting and Surrealism. The catalog takes its title from the last line of this text.

Charcoal Studies presents a series of figurative charcoals made by Lee Krasner (1908-84) from 1937 to 1940 under the tutelage of Hans Hofmann that would become seminal to the artist's career. In 1977, Krasner demonstrated the relevance of these charcoal works in a brilliant late series of collage paintings in which she repurposed a large number of her Hofmann School drawings. Fortunately, Krasner did not destroy all the drawings. Fifty of these are included in her 1995 catalogue raisonné; another portfolio with 20 more (including four previously unknown still lifes) has recently come to light. Charcoals includes the never-before-published works as well as updated research and text to serve as a complete listing of all surviving Hofmann School charcoal sketches and as a definitive reference on this pivotal period within Krasner's oeuvre.