Hans Hofmann's art "has the authority of pure vision. Van Gogh had that. Picasso has it. And Hans Hofmann also has a place with those giants who move straight into the light without being blinded by it." Tennessee Williams, 1949 The painter Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) is one of the most important figures in post-war American art. In his lifetime, he came to be admired for his exuberant, color-filled canvases, but it was as an influential teacher, first in his native Germany, later in New York and Provincetown, that he was most ...
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Hans Hofmann's art "has the authority of pure vision. Van Gogh had that. Picasso has it. And Hans Hofmann also has a place with those giants who move straight into the light without being blinded by it." Tennessee Williams, 1949 The painter Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) is one of the most important figures in post-war American art. In his lifetime, he came to be admired for his exuberant, color-filled canvases, but it was as an influential teacher, first in his native Germany, later in New York and Provincetown, that he was most renowned. Today, he is celebrated a giant of twentieth-century abstraction, and his pivotal role, along with Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Arshile Gorky, in the development of Abstract Expressionism is widely acknowledged. Published to accompany a retrospective of the artist's work at the Naples Museum of Art, Florida, Hans Hofmann examines the full range of his achievement and influence as both artist and theorist. As a painter, Hofmann was distinguished by his ability to create expressive drama and evocative space with contrasts of intense color, richly modulated surfaces, and a vocabulary of shapes ranging from the geometric to the calligraphic. As a teacher, he brought to America first-hand knowledge of the work of such European modernists as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, who he met as a young man studying in Paris, during the early years of twentieth-century modernism. As a theorist, he developed an original philosophy of what a work of art could be, which formed the basis of his teaching, lectures, and essays. One of these statements, about the role of color in painting, is included in Hans Hofmann . More than sixty paintings highlight key stages of Hofmann's career, with a generous representation of works from the late flowering of his last decades, when he produced many of his most inventive pictures. 63 illustrations in color, 10 in black and white.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0807615269. Previous owner's name penned on front pastedown, In VG DJ (in protector); Blue cloth hardback. 143 pp. Color and B&W illustrationss. Bibliography, chronology. Catalog for exhibition of German artist; 4to; 143 pages.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0807615269. In VG+ DJ (in protector); Blue cloth hardback. 143 pp. Color and B&W illustrationss. Bibliography, chronology. Catalog for exhibition of German artist; 4to; 143 pages.
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Hofmann, Hans. Fine in very good(+) jacket. 70 paintings reproduced in full color, additional illustrations in black-and-white. 143 pages, 4to, blue cloth, d.w.; small closed tears to dust wrapper at lower rear corner and head of the spine. New York: George Braziller with Naples Museum of Art, (2003). A fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.
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VG/VG (ex-libris w/ embossed stamp to front endpaper. light scuffs, scratches to boards. rubbing to corners & spine ends. soft bump to spine tail. dustjacket scuffed & scratched; toning to flaps & interior) Blue boards with white stamped lettering. Color-illustrated dust jacket with black and white lettering. 143 pp. Color and BW illustrations. "The selection of seventy paintings featured here highlight every stage of Hans Hofmann career, with a generous selection from his major works of the 1960s. His extraordinary use of rich, vibrant colors in striking structural compositions distinguish him as a modern master. As a teacher, he brought to America knowledge of the work of European modernists (he had met Picasso, Braque, and Matisse in Paris, where he studied as a young man), and developed his own philosophy of art, which he expressed in numerous essays. One of these statements-which counts among the most important of his discussions on the role of color in painting-is included here. Also included are contributions by Helen Frankenthaler and Sir Anthony Caro, and a little-known appreciation of Hofmann by Tennessee Williams."--Jacket.
