Katy Siegel
Author
Publisher
Hauser & Wirth Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Widely celebrated for his experimental approach to painting, Jack Whitten often turned to writing as a way to investigate, understand, and grapple with his practice and his milieu. "Notes from the Woodshed" is the first publication devoted to Whitten's writings and takes its name from the heading Whitten scrawled across many of his texts. Working across various forms from meticulous daily logs, to developed longer essays, to published statements and...
Publisher
Colby College Museum of Art
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Coming of age as an artist in the 1950s, Alex Katz set out to reinvent representational painting by applying lessons learned from postwar abstraction. Initially, he struggled to find an audience, destroying hundreds of canvases. This book is the first survey of the artwork from this momentous decade, one in which Katz began to paint outdoors, innovated with collages, invented the cutout, and met Ada del Moro, his wife and muse. The authors consider...
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Lee Krasner, a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, has been one of the few female artists to be given a retrspective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. This volume features a selection of the artist's most important paintings, collages, and works on paper; essays on her life and art by Eleanor Nairne, Katy Siegel, John Yau, and Suzanne Hudson, an interview with her biographer Gail Levin; and a fully illustrated chronology. From back cover.