Black Paintings: Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella
from Hatje Cantz
In the late 1940s, several prominent artists of the New York School--among them Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko and Frank Stella--were intently studying the color black. That work, interrelated but not collaborative, resulted in an astonishing number of almost monochromatic black paintings, which today are considered treasures of many major collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art's. For the first time, Black Paintings gathers all of the best of the title artist's black works together: textured black, striped black, blue-black, brown-black, black-black. In thorough illustration and thoughtful analysis, it sheds light on the differences between these postwar works as well as their commonalities. For Frank Stella and Robert Rauschenberg, black was a way to disappear into something new, a way to a new artistic vocabulary. For Mark Rothko, it stood for emptiness and nothingness; it asked the spectator to reflect back on it. For Ad Reinhardt, it offered denial and invisibility. Each artist's black portfolio reflects a breakthrough or transition in his own work, and, combined, they represent a larger moment of transition. The Black Paintings marked both a beginning and an end: the end of painting as illusion, as a window onto the world, and the beginning of painting as the mode for the creation of self-sufficient perceptual objects--a change that granted new roles to both artist and viewer.
Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)
by Paul Goldberger
from Metropolitan Museum of Art
Since the early 1990s, the American artist Frank Stella (b. 1936) has designed various architectural structures, including a band shell, pavilions, and museums. This book demonstrates how Stella’s formal concerns have evolved from paintings to wall reliefs to freestanding sculptures that extend into architecture. Included are illustrations of the 25 works in the accompanying exhibition that range from small models to a portion of a building at full scale. Photographs of works by architects who have influenced Stella are also featured.
Frank Stella's Moby-Dick: Words and Shapes.(Book Review): An article from: Leviathan
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Title: Frank Stella's Moby-Dick: Words and Shapes.(Book Review)
Author: Robert K. Wallace
Publication: Leviathan (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: Melville Society
Volume: 5 Issue: 1 Page: 87(4)
Article Type: Book Review
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The prints of FRANK STELLA: a catalogue raisonne 1967-1982.
Frank Stella: Illustrations After El Lissitzky's Had Gadya 1982-84
Frank Stella 1958
by Harry Cooper
from Yale University Press
The Prints of Frank Stella: A Catalogue Raisonne, 1967-1982
Frank Stella at Two Thousand : Changing the Rules (Contemporary Art)
Frank Stella: American Abstract Artist (Painters)
by James Pearson
from Crescent Moon Publishing
A new critical survey of the celebrated New York abstract painter. Stella achieved success early on in his career with his Black Paintings of the late 1950s. In the 60s his colourful 'Protractor' series and geometric shaped canvases became some of the most distinctive manifestations of postwar and Minimalist art. In the 1970s Stella went 'maximalist', producing multi-media works, often using lumps of aluminium and steel, which were vivaciously and complexly three dimensional.
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