Thomas Nozkowski / John Yau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yau, John, 1950- author.

Series:

Contemporary painters series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nozkowski, Thomas--Criticism and interpretation.

Nozkowski, Thomas.

Nozkowski, Thomas--Catalogs.

Art, Abstract--United States.

Art, Abstract.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

151 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Lund Humphries, 2017.

Summary:

This book offers the first detailed account of the paintings of American artist Thomas Nozkowski (born 1944), creator of modestly-sized abstract works that swiftly convey what one writer described as 'a remarkable sense of freedom within constraint.' As an emerging artist in the 1970s, Thomas Nozkowski's mature style developed in the wake of Minimalism, Pop Art and Colour Field painting and during a decade which became defined by movements - such as Conceptual and Performance art - that eschewed painting. While many artists identified with the notion of 'painting's terminal condition', Nozkowski chose to express personal experience through small-scale canvases that refused to adhere to 'a signature style' or align themselves with a particular movement. Through John Yau's perceptive text, the trajectory of Nozkowski's very individual artistic pathway is clearly presented.

Contents:

Foreword / by Barry Schwabsky

Introduction

First breakthrough

Pisanello's The Vision of St. Eustace, 1438-42

Landscape and abstraction

The 1990s

The twenty-first century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-144) and index.

Contains:

Nozkowski, Thomas. Works. Selections.

ISBN:

1848222386

9781848222380

OCLC:

975080091