Glory of the World
This book casts new light on mid-twentieth century Color Field painting from the perspective of the artists’ ambitions for the future of abstract painting. Color Field became a convenient, albeit imperfect term to describe paintings in which vast areas of color appear as the dominant force. Color Field was not an art movement, rather it was a cohort of likeminded artists. While the American Abstract Expressionists cleared a path for this postwar generation to forge ahead with abstract painting, their achievements naturally challenged artists such as Frank Bowling, Peter Bradley, Jack Bush, Ed Clark, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Morris Louis, Al Loving, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, Frank Stella, and Alma Thomas, to create abstraction anew. Experimenting with non-traditional painting mediums and methods, as well as these artists’ probing of the conventions of painting, led to unprecedented works
Skira is a world-leading art publisher. We embody the very highest visual and academic standards in our work. We cover the entire history of art and we push the boundaries of what art means. We are not just a publishing house – we are a world authority on the arts. But something else has made us the go-to space for lovers of culture and it has given us an innate ability to attract generations of artists and gallery owners to tell their stories and showcase their work. This something else is Albert Skira himself. He founded Skira in 1928. It was a time of great societal upheaval, the height of classical modernity, a period of political extremes and psychoanalysis. His inaugural publications were Picasso, Ovid and Surrealism. For Albert Skira, the ambition of art was to elucidate its own mystery. This is Skira. Skira is the excitement of a leap into the unknown. Skira creates space for the emergence of originality by questioning assumed truths. Skira embodies the perpetual change of art. Skira is the spirit of learning without limits. Skira is a world-leading publisher of the arts because, like an artist, it ventures to look where nobody has ever looked before.
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 192
Language: English
Dimensions: 9.5 x 11 inches
Publication date: 2024
ISBN: 9788857252216
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