Piero della Francesca e l'astrazione

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art

I worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago shortly after this exhibition closed, and this book has had an effect on me ever since I was selling the exhibition catalogue back in 1989. I have never owned a copy, but was always mystified by the complexity of the articles, ranging from Blavatsky to every kind of Oriental Mysticism and Russian occultism and mathematical speculations about the universe, as well as every intellectual art trend from the late 1890's to the early 20C. I have been wanting to read this book for 30 years...It is a profound book, I just haven't grown up enough to read it yet.

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herausgegeben von Hannelore Paflik-Huber

Als Protagonist der Heftigen Malerei und Mitbegründer der Galerie am Moritzplatz wurde Bernd Zimmer (geb. 1948) in den 1970ern bekannt. Seither entstand ein bemerkenswertes Œuvre, in dem die Auseinandersetzung mit der Natur einen zentralen Stellenwert einnimmt: von den Wüstenbildern und dschungelartigen Wäldern über die Serie der Cosmos-Bilder bis zu eindrucksvollen Holzschnitten monumentalen Formats. Der vorliegende Band lässt anhand von 75 ausgewählten Arbeiten die letzten 20 Jahre seines Schaffens Revue passieren und gibt Einblick in ein einzigartiges Werk, das souverän zwischen Gegenständlichkeit und Abstraktion, Natureindruck und autonomer Formgebung oszilliert. Exhibition: Städtischen Galerie im Leeren Beutel, Regensburg, Germany (22.06. -03.09.2018) / Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, Neue Galerie, Germany (19.10.2018 - 03.02.2019).

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Karin Sagner-Düchting

"This illustrated volume examines the lines of influence leading from Monet to the great modern exponents of Abstract Expressionism. The book emphasizes the innovative aspects of Monet's late works, including his famous waterlily paintings and Rouen Cathedral series. His paintings are juxtaposed with those of 30 modern artists, including Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, and Ellsworth Kelly." "The ground-breaking importance of Monet's late work was long underestimated by avant-garde artists of the early 20th century. For them Cezanne was the father of modern art. It was only in the 1950s that the Abstract Expressionists in America and Europe began to recognize and build upon Monet's achievements. This fascinating volume provides fresh insight into the works of Monet and the followers of Abstract Expressionism in its various American and European manifestations."--Jacket.

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[exhibition curated by Tim Wilcox

"This book brings together for the first time Sean Scully's images of the walls of Aran, revealing the unexpected yet monumental beauty of these centuries-old structures that meander across the austere and exposed landscape. In form and spirit, the photographs of the walls, with their horizontal and vertical shards of limestone, shed light on Scully's own sensibilities as an artist, revealing a creative process expressed through abstract shapes yet rooted in the material world. They also capture the stillness and serenity of this rugged, timeless place on the edge of Europe."--Jacket.