"Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)" examines the impulse toward reduction, restraint, and lucidity in postwar art. Drawing on the Guggenheim's exceptional holdings of minimalist painting and singular sculpture, "Singular Forms" begins with Robert Rauschenberg's historic "White Painting" (1951), a stark, monochrome canvas. This seminal work establishes twin trajectories in the development of contemporary art: the elimination of all extraneous details to achieve an art of pure, essential form, and the attention to issues of ...
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"Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)" examines the impulse toward reduction, restraint, and lucidity in postwar art. Drawing on the Guggenheim's exceptional holdings of minimalist painting and singular sculpture, "Singular Forms" begins with Robert Rauschenberg's historic "White Painting" (1951), a stark, monochrome canvas. This seminal work establishes twin trajectories in the development of contemporary art: the elimination of all extraneous details to achieve an art of pure, essential form, and the attention to issues of perception. After a prologue including other examples of radical, monochrome paintings by Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, and Ad Reinhardt, "Singular Forms" explores how these parallel artistic strategies were manifest in Minimalist and Conceptual art of the 1960s and 70s through the work of Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, and Lawrence Weiner, among others. Minimalism's impact on subsequent generations of contemporary artists begins with Postminimalism, which utilized the movement's deliberate paucity of formal means to explore a range of concerns including process, the dematerialization of the object, the performative nature of art, and the structural properties of light. Artists such as Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, James Turrell, and Richard Long are included in this section. What follows are artists schooled in the deconstructivist tendencies of Postmodernism--such as Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Roni Horn--who resuscitated Minimalism as a style, infusing its unitary, nonreferential forms with content to bring to the fore trenchant cultural issues. "Singular Forms" concludes with recent work that shares the look of classicMinimalist art, but uses it to communicate deeply personal, political, or poetic mess
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Good. No jacket. Cover is scratched and worn with the spine being slightly tanned. The top and bottom edges are slightly worn. Binding is tight and inside is clean and unmarked.
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Fine Condition. No Jacket, As Issued. 167 pages. Hardcover exhibition catalogue. Text in English. A tiny bit of scratching to the exceptionally fragile silver covers. Else, the binding is tight, the edges and corners sharp, and interior clean and free of markings. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from March 5-May 19, 2004.
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New. Excellent condition. Never read or opened. No remainder mark. Still in original publisher's wrap. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 167 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
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Near Fine Plus. No Jacket, as Issued. Exhibition Catalogue. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Hardcover., two superficial scratches to back cover. no other flaws or notable wear. clean. no markings. no bumps. tight binding.; english text.; 167pp., illustrated throughout in color. introduction and six essays by various contributors. catalogue. includes work by many international post-war twentieth century artists.
