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A comprehensive study highlighting the interplay of context and meaning in Robert Ryman's work This remarkable volume, featuring new photography and original essays by a formidable array of scholars and curators, is the most expansive and thorough investigation of the work of American painter Robert Ryman in over two decades. Arguing that the relationships between his paintings are key to understanding his diverse output, the book offers more faithful reproductions and subtler details of the paintings than have previously been available, and attends closely to the artist's own strategies of display. Ryman's paintings are readily identified by their predominantly achromatic surfaces, but his exploration of the values and effects of white was never limited to paint. His experimentations with canvas, board, paper, aluminum, fiberglass, and Plexiglas have evolved into a material vocabulary as revolutionary as his use of white. The texts featured here reflect on the importance of Ryman's practice to contemporary art: Robert Storr, curator of Ryman's 1993 retrospective, places the painter in historical context while Courtney J. Martin, curator of his 2015-16 exhibition at Dia Chelsea, looks at Ryman's three-dimensional works. Drawings scholar Allegra Pesenti investigates his drawing practice; music historian John Szwed traces the influence of jazz in Ryman's early works; and artist Charles Gaines asks what, in a Ryman, is real.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Yale University
ISBN-10
0300226713
ISBN-13
9780300226713
eBay Product ID (ePID)
228610924
Product Key Features
Book Title
Robert Ryman
Author
Jo Applin
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, European
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Art
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
10.4in.
Item Height
1.3in.
Item Width
7.8in.
Item Weight
57.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Nd237.R83r63 2017
Reviews
"[This publication] follows last year's solo exhibition at Dia's Chelsea location (represented here with a generous selection of installation photographs) and collects a range of edifying essays by esteemed artists, curators, conservators, critics, historians, musicians, and, not least, the painter's ex-wife, renowned writer and curator Lucy Lippard."--Eric Baden, Choice Honorable mention for the 2017 George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award, given by the Art Libraries Society of North America, "[This publication] follows last year's solo exhibition at Dia's Chelsea location (represented here with a generous selection of installation photographs) and collects a range of edifying essays by esteemed artists, curators, conservators, critics, historians, musicians, and, not least, the painter's ex-wife, renowned writer and curator Lucy Lippard."--Eric Baden, Choice
Copyright Date
2017
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2017-009101
Dewey Decimal
759.13
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes