Hans Hofmann
Subtitle: art like life is real
By: [essay by William C. Agee]
Contributors: Ameringer Howard (Gallery)
Publisher: Ameringer McEnery Yohe
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9780982081099
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Exhibitions; Abstract expressionism
Other titles: Art like life is real
Description: Hans Hofmann's first solo exhibition in New York was held at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century Gallery in 1944. Exuberant and powerful, the exhibited works showcased the breadth of his abilities from his manipulation of visual space to the emotive qualities of form and color in his pictorial compositions. As Cynthia Goodman notes in her essay for the current exhibition, this body of paintings and drawings, some originally seen in Guggenheim's gallery, was significant because "it provided the first opportuinty for the New York art world to see his work" and firmly established Hofmann as "part of the critical dialogue but also an inextricable presence in the development of the then-nascent New York school of painting."
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition, 15 March-21 April 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 70-71).