Joan Mitchell : I carry my landscapes around with me / [text ; Suzanne Hudson, Robert Slifkin].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hudson, Suzanne Perling, 1977- writer of added commentary.

Slifkin, Robert, writer of added commentary.

David Zwirner (Gallery), host institution.

George R. Gund Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mitchell, Joan, 1925-1992.

Mitchell, Joan, 1925-1992--Exhibitions.

Mitchell, Joan.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

101 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 36 cm

Other Title:

I carry my landscapes around with me

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : David Zwirner Books, 2019.

Summary:

'I carry my landscapes around with me' focuses on American abstract artist Joan Mitchell's large-scale multipanel works from the 1960s through the 1990s. Mitchell's exploration of the possibilities afforded by combining two to five large canvases allowed her to simultaneously create continuity and rupture, while opening up a panoramic expanse referencing landscapes or the memory of landscapes.Mitchell established a singular approach to abstraction over the course of her career. Her inventive reinterpretation of the traditional figure-ground relationship and synesthetic use of color set her apart from her peers, resulting in intuitively constructed and emotionally charged compositions that alternately evoke individuals, observations, places, and points in time. Art critic John Yau lauded her paintings as "one of the towering achievements of the postwar period." Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at David Zwirner New York in 2019, this book offers a unique opportunity to explore the range of scale and formal experimentation of this innovative area of Mitchell's extensive body of work. It not only features reproductions of each painting in this selection as a whole, but also numerous details that allow an intimate understanding of the surface texture and brushwork. In the complementing essays, Suzanne Hudson examines boundaries, borders, and edges in Mitchell's multipanel paintings, beginning with her first work of this kind, The Bridge (1956), considering them as both physical and conceptual objects; Robert Slifkin discusses the dynamics of repetition and energy in the artist's paintings, in relation to works by Monet and Willem de Kooning, among others. Exhibition: David Zwirner Gallery, New York, USA (03.05.-12.07.2019).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Gund Memorial Fund.

Contains:

Mitchell, Joan, 1925-1992. Works. Selections.

ISBN:

9781644230282

1644230283

OCLC:

1129710945