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Unfinished : thoughts left visible / Kelly Baum, Andrea Bayer, Sheena Wagstaff ; with essays by Carmen C. Bambach, Thomas Beard, David Bomford, David Blayney Brown, Nicholas Cullinan, Michael Gallagher, Asher Ethan Miller, Nadine M. Orenstein, Diana Widmaier Picasso, Susan Stewart, Nico Van Hout.
LIBRA N6350 .U54 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Unfinished works of art--Exhibitions.
- Unfinished works of art.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 336 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Distribution:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2016]
- Summary:
- "This unprecedented book explores the evolving concept of unfinishedness as essential to understanding art movements from the Renaissance to the present. Unfinished presents more than 170 works, created in a variety of media, by artists ranging from Leonardo, Titian, Rembrandt, Turner, and Cézanne to Picasso, Warhol, Twombly, Freud, Richter, and Nauman. What unites these works, across centuries and media, is that each one displays some aspect of being unfinished. Essays and case studies by major contemporary scholars address this key concept from the perspective of both the creator and the viewer, probing the impact that this long artistic trajectory-which can be traced back to the first century-has had on modern and contemporary art. The book explores the degrees to which instances of incompleteness were accidental or intentional, experimental or conceptual. Also included are illuminating interviews with contemporary artists, including Tuymans, Celmins, and Marden, and parallel considerations of the unfinished in literature and film. The result is a multidisciplinary approach and thought-provoking analysis that provide valuable insight into the making, meaning, and critical reception of the unfinished in art"--Distributor's website.
- Notes:
- Catalog of the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, March 18-September 4, 2016.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.
- ISBN:
- 9781588395863
- 1588395863
- OCLC:
- 923796119
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