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Frank Stella is regarded as one of the most important living American artists to have succeeded the Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s. In his early years he established himself as a painter of powerful minimalist canvases, using simple geometric patterns as images. But in the early 1970s, he began what might be called the "maximalist," or inclusive, phase of his art. This work posed new kinds of questions: how much could he subsume from the plastic arts of sculpture and architecture and still be making paintings? And how many of the lapsed conventions of painting itself--in the realms of configuration, spatial structure, and even narrative form--could be redeployed in an art that still remained wholly abstract?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1129084 in Books
• Published on: 2002
• Released on: 2002-09-02
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 172 pages

From Library Journal
In 1970, at age 34, Stella became the youngest artist to be given a full-scale retrospective at MOMA. His second retrospective there is celebrated by this expensive catalog, whose author is director of painting and sculpture at the museum. The new show covers the artist's "second career," marked by a shift away from the simple geometrical patterns of Stella's earlier minimalist canvases toward powerful constructivist-inspired, mixed media paintings on aluminum and etched magnesium. Essential for collections strong in contempoary art, especially those with the catlog of the first exhibit, also authored by Rubin. Russell T. Clement, Brigham Young Univ. Lib., Provo, Ut.
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