Joan Mitchell : pastel / introduction by Klaus Kertess ; [edited and designed by John Cheim].
By: Mitchell, Joan
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Contributor(s): Kertess, Klaus | Cheim, John.
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BookPublisher: New York : Robert Miller Gallery, 1992Description: [100] p., 38 p. of plates : ill. ; 32 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0944680399.Subject(s): Mitchell, Joan, 1926-1992 -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 741.092 MIT
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 741.092 MIT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00073122 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Between the mid-1950s and the early '60s, the paintings of Joan Mitchell (1925-92) grew exponentially in sophistication and strength. In the summer of 1953 she began to paint outdoors in the Hamptons, developing an engagement with nature, but with a crucial distinction from her male counterparts in the abstract expressionist movement. As the late curator and writer Klaus Kertess wrote, "Pollock's ...] 'I am nature' is very different from Mitchell's being with nature in memory. Pollock is more a shaman, Mitchell more a lover. But both share with van Gogh a high tuned, visceral sensitivity to movement. And both share the quality that Frank] O'Hara so aptly attributed to Pollock's paintings: 'lyrical desperation.'" This book looks at this period, in which Mitchell began to travel regularly between Paris and New York, and received her first major solo shows in the US and in France.
Includes bibliographical references.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Klaus Juergen-Dieter Kertess was born in Manhattan, New York on July 16, 1940. He received a bachelor's degree in art history in 1962 and a master's degree in art history in 1964 from Yale University. After graduation, he took a job at the advertising agency Interpublic. In 1966, he opened the Bykert Gallery with financial backing from a college friend Jeffrey Byers. After leaving the gallery in 1975, he became a curator and writer.He was a curator at the Parrish Art Museum from 1983 to 1989. He then became adjunct curator of drawing at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 1989 to 1995. He also curated exhibitions at the Drawing Center in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit. He wrote monographs on Brice Marden, Jane Freilicher and Joan Mitchell. His books include a collection of criticism entitled Seen, Written: Selected Essays and a collection of short stories entitled South Brooklyn Casket Company. He died on October 8, 2016 at the age of 76.
(Bowker Author Biography)