Barbara Takenaga
By: curated by Debra Bricker Balken
Contributors: Takenaga, Barbara, artist; Shepard, Jim, writer of added commentary; Young, Geoffrey, 1944- writer of added commentary; Williams College. Museum of Art; Prestel Verlag
Publisher: Prestel Publishing; Prestel
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9783791357003
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Psychedelic art; Women artists; Exhibitions; Abstract Painting
Description: At once conceptual and decorative, Barbara Takenaga's swirling, patterned paintings have been called "psychedelic" and "cosmic." Takenaga's approach to painting is both highly structured and disciplined. In this collection of seventy paintings, the evolution of Takenaga's celestial bodies and ecstatic compositions is traced over a 20-year period. The luminous reproductions allow readers to study her intricacies of form and color. The book includes an essay that examines Takenaga's work in relation to historic precedents and current aesthetic developments; a brief consideration of Takenaga's career by novelist Jim Shepard; and a poem by Geoffrey Young.
Notes: Catalog of the exhibition held at Williams College, Museum of Art, October 5, 2017-January 28, 2018.

Primarily acrylic paintings on wood panel or linen.

Selected bibliography: (pages 138-142)

"Barbara Takenaga" : October 5, 2017-January 28, 2018, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States.

Text in English.
Table of contents: title: The way of the dot / Debra Bricker Balken; title: Self-effacement and the sublime / Jim Shepard; title: Horizon lines / Geoffrey Young; title: Plates; title: Checklist; title: Biography.