Title: Frank Stella unbound : literature and printmaking /
Authors: Abbaspour, Mitra,; Brown, Calvin, 1952-; Cooke, Erica,; Princeton University.; Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville,
Year: 2018
Subjects: Stella, Frank Exhibitions.; Stella, Frank Criticism and interpretation.; Stella, Frank Themes, motives.; Stella, Frank.; Stella, Frank; Literature in art Exhibitions.; Prints, Abstract Exhibitions.; Prints, American Exhibitions.; Art, Modern Exhibitions; Male artists New York (State) New York Exhibitions.; ART / Prints.; Druckgrafik; 21.32 history of the graphic arts.; 20.09 art in relation with other areas of culture: other.
Abstract: Focusing on the vital role of literature in the development of the artistic practice of Frank Stella (b. 1936), this insightful book looks at four transformative series of prints made between 1984 and 1999. Each of these series is named after a literary work - the Had Gadya (a playful song traditionally sung at the end of the Passover Seder), Italian Folktales, compiled by Italo Calvino, Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, and The Dictionary of Imaginary Places by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi. This investigation offers a critical new perspective on Stella: an examination of his interdisciplinary process, literary approach, and interest in the lessons of art history as crucial factors for his artistic development as a printmaker. Mitra Abbaspour, Calvin Brown, and Erica Cooke examine how Stella's dynamic engagement with literature paralleled the artist's experimentation with unconventional printmaking techniques and engendered new ways of representing spatial depth to unleash the narrative potential of abstract forms.00Exhibition: Princeton University Art Museum, USA (19.05-23.09.2018); Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, USA (06.10.2018-13.01.2019).
Contents: Foreword and acknowledgments / James Christen Steward -- Graphic imagination: Frank Stella and the literary print / Mitra Abbaspour and Calvin Brown -- Making literary impressions: Stella on abstraction and its narrative foundations / Erica Cooke -- Illustrations after El Lissitzky's Had Gaya -- Italian folktales, 1988-1989 -- The Moby Dick prints, 1989-93 -- Imaginary places, 1994-99.