Black Paintings, English edition - Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella. Exhibition: Haus der Kunst, München, 2006-2007

During the late 1940s, famous artists from the New York School Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella, and Barnett Newman intently studied the color black. This resulted in an astonishing number of series of almost monochromatic blackpaintings, which today are considered treasures of internationally important collections such as the Whitney Museum in New York or the National Gallery inLondon. For the first time,Black Paintingswill show these paintings together.
The publication, with an informative essay by Stephanie Rosenthal, will shed light on the differences between these post-war workscreated in New York, as well as the things they have in common. It pursues the question of what meaning they have in the context of each artist's entire oeuvre. One thesis the book deals with is the possibility that these blackpaintings represent breakthroughs and transitions in the artists work. It even attempts to draw the conclusion that the paintings could actually be interpreted as a kind of self-portrait.
Exhibitionschedule: Haus der Kunst, Munich, September 16, 2006 January 15,2007

Product details

• Assisted by: Stephanie Rosenthal (Editor)
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2006
• EAN: 9783775718608
• ISBN: 978-3-7757-1860-8
• No. of pages: 172
• Dimensions: 251 mm x 327 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 1396 g
• Illustrations: w. 120 col. and 30 b&w ill.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Plastic arts