By Robert Storr. Edited with text by Francesca Pietropaolo.
A scholarly meditation on Reinhardts work, bringing together his abstract painting, comics and slide lecture series
The second volume of Focal Points takes as its subject the work of American artist Ad Reinhardt (191367). An American abstract painter, he worked in New York alongside artists including Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning. Renowned art critic and historian Robert Storr curated the award-winning 2013 exhibition of Reinhardts work at David Zwirner gallery. This book brings together, for the first time, Storrs writings on Reinhardts abstract paintingfor which the artist became hugely influential on the younger generations of Minimal and Conceptual practitionershis satirical cartoons addressing political and social issues and advocating for abstract art, and his famous slide lecture series. With introductory texts by Storr and art historian Francesca Pietropaolo, this book features an essay previously published in How to Look: Ad Reinhardt, Art Comics (2013) and a companion text, also written in 2013, that appears in print for the first time.
Featured image is reproduced from 'Focal Points: Ad Reinhardt.'
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Published by HENI Publishing. By Robert Storr. Edited with text by Francesca Pietropaolo.
A scholarly meditation on Reinhardts work, bringing together his abstract painting, comics and slide lecture series
The second volume of Focal Points takes as its subject the work of American artist Ad Reinhardt (191367). An American abstract painter, he worked in New York alongside artists including Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning. Renowned art critic and historian Robert Storr curated the award-winning 2013 exhibition of Reinhardts work at David Zwirner gallery. This book brings together, for the first time, Storrs writings on Reinhardts abstract paintingfor which the artist became hugely influential on the younger generations of Minimal and Conceptual practitionershis satirical cartoons addressing political and social issues and advocating for abstract art, and his famous slide lecture series. With introductory texts by Storr and art historian Francesca Pietropaolo, this book features an essay previously published in How to Look: Ad Reinhardt, Art Comics (2013) and a companion text, also written in 2013, that appears in print for the first time.
