IMAGINING LANDSCAPES/ PAINTINGS BY HELEN FRANKENTHALER 1952 - 1976

This volume explores references to landscape in Frankenthalers paintings over a period spanning more than two decades, beginning in 1952, just prior to her breakthrough to stain painting. Focusing on fourteen works, it examines an extraordinary variety of gesture , from linear drawing to areas of lush, stained color and ?atter, more opaque applications of paint. An essay by art historian Rober t Slifkin considers the complex evocations of space in Frankenthalers works of this period. Richly illustrated with full-color plat es, detail...[Llegir més]