Fresh widow
Subtitle: the window in art since Matisse and Duchamp
By: edited by the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf ; [editor, Maria Müller-Schareck]
Contributors: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany)
Publisher: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen; Hatje Cantz
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Düsseldorf; Ostfildern
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9783775732932; 9783775732925
Subjects: Modern Art; Themes, motives; Windows in art; Exhibitions
Other titles: Window in art since Matisse and Duchamp
Description: "Formulated in 1434 by Leon Battista Alberti, the notion that a painting is like an open window influenced generations of painters. At the start of the twentieth century, the window, reduced to its framework, was employed as a motif and a symbol in order to test the function of painting as a means of reproduction. To the degree that the window is empty, its painted depiction denies us a perspective of the world. With Fresh Widow, the replica of a French window whose panes are covered in black leather, Marcel Duchamp postulated a farewell from illusionist painting in 1920. At the same time, it marked a new beginning. This publication reflects on the development of window painting in art through essays and monographic texts on artists such as Robert Delaunay, Henri Matisse, Marcel Duchamp, René Magritte, Ellsworth Kelly, Eva Hesse, Gerhard Richter, Günther Förg, and others."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Mar. 31-Aug. 12, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Fresh widow : the idea of the window as a "point of departure" / Maria Müller-Schareck; title: Views out, in, and through : a brief history of the window up to the modern era / Rolf Selbmann; title: The window (maker) or constructions of visibility / Elke Bippus; title: The artists and their works; title: Simultaneous motion : Robert Delaunay's window pictures / Erich Franz; title: Henri Matisse and the window : a theme and variations / Peter Kropmanns; title: The windows of Marcel Duchamp : between "painting of precision and beauty of indifference" / Isabelle Malz; title: Josef Albers : the visible and invisible / Heinz Liesbrock; title: Magritte window / Christoph Grunenberg; title: Constructing the seen : Ellsworth Kelly's windows / Maria Müller-Schareck; title: Blocked perspectives : Christo's covered Show window / Melanie Vietmeier; title: Right after : Eva Hesse's late drawings / Lisa Marei Schmidt; title: Robert Motherwell's Open paintings / John Yau; title: "Painting and drawing in space" : Brice Marden's designs for the choir windows of Basel Cathedral / Christian Müller; title: Demonstrations of sight : the transformation of image and object in Gerhard Richter's windows / Stefan Gronert; title: "Everybody needs at least one window" : Isa Genzken's window sculptures / Melanie Vietmeier; title: Images of light : darkness in the work of Günther Förg / Rune Gade; title: Occurrences in space : Toba Khedoori's pictorial windows / Hans Rudolf Reust; title: Lathered : Jeff Wall's luminous display windows / Doris Krystof; title: Olafur Eliasson : the end of the window / Ina Blom; title: Through a glass darkly : the window pane and picture plane in the photography of Sabine Hornig / Caroline Käding.