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Jack Whitten : Jack's Jacks / For the Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin edited by Udo Kittelmann, Sven Beckstette ; authors: Sven Beckstette [and 7 others].
Fine Arts Library ND237.W6234 A4 2019
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- German
- Multiple languages
- Subjects (All):
- Whitten, Jack, 1939-2018--Exhibitions.
- Whitten, Jack.
- Whitten, Jack, 1939-2018--Criticism and interpretation.
- Whitten, Jack, 1939-2018--Themes, motives.
- Whitten, Jack, 1939-2018.
- Painting, Abstract--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Painting, Abstract.
- Painting, Abstract--21st century--Exhibitions.
- African American art--United States--20th century--Exhibitions.
- African American art.
- African American art--United States--21st century--Exhibitions.
- African American artists--Alabama--20th century--Exhibitions.
- African American artists.
- African American artists--Alabama--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Themes, motives.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Alabama.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Essays.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 237 pages : illustrations, portraits (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
- Manufacture:
- Passau, Germany : Passavia.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, Germany : Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin ; Munich, Germany : Prestel, [2019]
- Language Note:
- Parallel texts in English and German.
- Summary:
- Jack Whitten's alluring and inventive paintings are part of the collections of some of the world's most prominent museums and galleries--but this profoundly inventive artist worked primarily under the radar for most of his life. This book, conceived with Whitten's collaboration shortly before his death in 2018, brings his work into focus, highlighting in particular the themes of history, politics, and music. As a young man in Alabama, Whitten was angered by the racism he experienced. When he moved to New York City, he was inspired by the Abstract Expressionists dominating the art scene there. This book examines Whitten's influences and alliances--including his relationship to his mentors Norman Lewis and Willem de Kooning--to trace how the artist never stopped experimenting and innovating. His riotously colorful oils gave way to massive acrylic "Slab" paintings. These were followed by kaleidoscopic mosaic paintings that capture and redirect light; the "Black Monoliths" series, memorializing Whitten's personal heroes; and his later works, which embrace technology and the digital age.
- Contents:
- Vorwort = Foreword / Gabriele Quandt
- Gefühl und Hoffnug = Emotion and Hope / Udo Kittelmann
- Die Bedeutung der Abstraktion erweitern = Extending the Meaning of Abstraction / Sven Beckstette
- Das musikalische Auge von Jack Whitten = Jack Whitten's Musical Eye / Guthrie P. Ramsay, Jr.
- Brüderlichkeit = Brotherliness / Zoé Whitley
- Two-Eyed Jack = Two-Eyed Jack / David Reed
- Universell und zeitlos = Universal and Timeless / Stanley Whitney
- Ausgewählte Schriften = Selected Writings / Jack Whitten
- Chronologie = Chronology
- Werkliste = List of Works.
- Notes:
- "Jack Whitten: Jack's Jacks" : March 29-September 1, 2019, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany.
- Contains:
- Whitten, Jack, 1939-2018. Works. Selections
- Other Format:
- museum edition
- ISBN:
- 9783791358628
- 3791358626
- OCLC:
- 1112503550
- Publisher Number:
- 9783791358628
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