Frank Stella 1958
By: Harry Cooper and Megan R. Luke.
Contributors: Luke, Megan R, 1977-; Stella, Frank.; Arthur M. Sackler Museum.; Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.); Wexner Center for the Arts.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9780300109177; 9781891771422
Subjects: Stella, Frank -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: From the Publisher: For Frank Stella, 1958 was a crucial year. After graduating from Princeton University, he moved to Manhattan and painted a series of monumental, colorful canvases that culminated in the first of his famous "black paintings." This fascinating book focuses on the thirty works he painted that year. The paintings reflect his transformation from a student experimenting with abstract expressionism to a highly original artist whose works changed the course of postwar art. Presenting the entire series of paintings in color for the first time (except lost works known only through black-and-white photographs), this handsome book details the course of Stella's career in 1958. The authors situate his work in relation to that of Carl Andre, with whom Stella shared studio space that year, and Jasper Johns. Their analysis draws on concepts of originality, repetition, assemblage, and optimality. Drawing on new archival findings, firsthand observations of the paintings, and interviews with Stella and members of his circle, this volume enriches our understanding of a fascinating and critical stage in the artist's development.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts Feb. 4-May 7, 2006; The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas May 25-Aug. 20, 2006; Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus Sept. 9-Dec. 31, 2006.
Table of contents: title: Director's foreword; title: Acknowledgments; title: Objecting to things / Megan R. Luke; title: What you see and what he said / Harry Cooper.