General & Miscellaneous American Art, Minimalism & arte povera, Abstract Expressionism & Art of the 1950s, Abstract Art, Modern Art

Barnett Newman

Name: Barnett Newman
Author: Barnett Newman, Armin Zweite
ISBN: 9783775707954

by Barnett Newman, Armin Zweite

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Overview

The central works of Barnett Newman's oeuvre - many of which are reproduced here as full-page color plates - are the subject of an analytical study by Armin Zweite. This study not only gives a comprehensive appraisal of Newman's paintings, from his beginnings through his later works - predominantly large-format, monochromatic paintings - but also deals in detail with all of Newman's sculptures - "Here I", "Here II", and "Here III", "Broken Obelisk", "Lace Curtain for Mayor Daley", and "Zim Zum I" and "Zim Zum II" - as well as with Newman's Model for a Synagogue. The book affords a more differentiated insight into Newman's hermetic oeuvre than would ever be possible in separate treatises on individual parts or periods of Newman's work.

Synopsis

Artwork by Barnett Newman. Text by Armin Zweite.

About the Author, Barnett Newman, Armin Zweite

Barnett Newman was born in New York in 1905 to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents. A lifelong New Yorker, he studied at the Art Students League and the City College of New York. Close friends with Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, and Jackson Pollock, he was at the center of the New York art scene just as Abstract Expressionism was ascending to prominence in the early 1950s. In spite of his important role during the formative years of the New York School, Newman achieved recognition for his own work only late in his career, after decades of struggle. In the 1960s he served as an unofficial father figure to the emerging generation of minimalist and conceptual artists. Newman died in 1970.