- Hardcover: 104 pages
- Publisher: University of California Press (19 Nov 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0520237846
- ISBN-13: 978-0520237841
- Product Dimensions: 30.6 x 25.4 x 1.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,659,857 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An insightful look at this veteran abstract artist."--Denver Post
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This sweeping overview of Ellsworth Kelly's 50-year career brings together the 22 pieces the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art acquired from Kelly's personal collection in May 1999. The volume also includes paintings, sculptures, drawings and reliefs from the Museum's previous holdings and private collections throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The primary text by Madeleine Grynsztejn explores the evolution of Kelly's artwork, his longstanding interest in the phenomenology of vision, and his experimentation with compositions generated by the laws of chance. Additional essays by Julian Myers examine key issues and groupings of works, from Kelly's early figural paintings through the shaped panels and relief paintings for which the artist is best known. Kelly's paintings and sculptures are recognized as vital to the evolution of postwar Modernism. One of the chief proponents of hard-edge abstraction during the 1950s, he is also celebrated for his large-scale monochrome canvases. In 1956, Kelly gained critical recognition when the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York purchased his work and the Betty Parsons gallery presented his first exhibition in the US. From the 1970s to the present, the scale of Kelly's work increased as he joined canvases of different sizes and shapes into asymmetrical formats and created totems in bronze, wood and steel. From 1996 to 1998 the artist's work travelled to museums in Los Angeles, London and Munich. In 2002, Kelly's works are represented in museums and private collections worldwide, and he has received several prestigious awards and honorary degrees.
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