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Overview
Barnett Newman was the most original and influential artist to emerge in the United States in the decade following World War II. Following his "breakthrough" in 1948 in Onement I - a small painting with a red-orange vertical stripe centered on a red-brown ground - Newman developed his art organically and intensely, expressing his themes of creation and creativity over the next two decades in an astonishing number of true masterworks. This abundantly illustrated volume, by the late Harold Rosenberg, dean of American art critics, brings together for the first time reproductions in color of almost every one of Newman's paintings, as well as most of the drawings, watercolors, works in mixed media, sculpture, etchings, lithographs, and architecture. Rosenberg's interpretive essay emphasizes the spirituality and metaphysical quality of Newman's art, and it shows how Newman's personae as citizen, polemicist, man of impeccable taste, and metaphysician molded his artistic personality and led to the extraordinary series The Stations of the Cross and to the superb final paintings. More than most other American artists Newman influenced the course of art in the 1960s and 1970s. His enduring achievement - perhaps the greatest monument to artistic integrity ever created in the United States - is presented chronologically in this volume, medium by medium. Newman's statement of his life and art is fully assembled here, and his radiant paintings and colors shine forth from almost every page in a blaze of transcendent light.Editorials
Library Journal
Examining the work and career development of artist Barnett Newman, art critic Rosenberg begins with a detailed account of some of the artist's more important paintings. He then moves on to Newman's watercolors, lithographs, etchings, sculpture, and architecture, fully illustrating each section with clear, sharp photographs. The chronology of Newman's life is particularly helpful, as are the list of illustrations, appendix, and fully researched bibliography. Newman was one of the most influential American painters of the modern era. Now, within this text, his career has been carefully researched, thoroughly documented, and closely examined in a lively style. Recommended for serious art collections.-Martin Chasin, Adult Inst., Bridgeport, Ct.Book Details
Published
March 22, 1979
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Pages
260
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780810913608