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A scholarly meditation on Reinhardt's work, bringing together his abstract painting, comics and slide lecture seriesThe second volume of
Focal Points takes as its subject the work of American artist Ad Reinhardt (1913-67). 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 Reinhardt's work at David Zwirner gallery. This book brings together, for the first time, Storr's writings on Reinhardt's abstract painting--for which the artist became hugely influential on the younger generations of Minimal and Conceptual practitioners--his 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.
About the author
Robert Storr is an art critic, curator and artist. He has written widely on art and has interviewed some of the world's leading artists. Storr's writing has appeared in countless books and exhibition catalogues as well as in Art in America, Artforum, Parkett and ARTnews. He has curated exhibitions internationally and was the first North American curator of the Venice Biennale in 2007. His bestselling Interviews on Art (2017), Writings on Art 1980-2005 (2020) and Writings on Art 2006-2021 (2021) were published by HENI.
Francesca Pietropaolo is an Italian art historian of modern and contemporary art, and an independent curator. She has worked at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. As an art critic, she has written widely, including for Flash Art International, ARTnews, Art in America and Arte e Critica.
