| Description |
222 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 x 30 cm |
| Contents |
Director's Foreword \ Philippe de Montebello -- Clyfford Still \ Katharine Kuh -- From the Artist -- Introduction -- Notes and Letters -- The Exhibition -- Catalogue of the Paintings -- Biographical Chronology -- Documentary Photographs -- Selected Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Index -- Photograph Credits |
| Summary |
Clyfford Still is America's most important, most significant, and most daring artist. This painter, pursuing a course independent of the conventional apparatus of art dealers and galleries, almost never exhibits except under museum auspices. For these reasons a Clyfford Still exhibition is a major event in the art world, and a book on Clyfford Still is a major event in the world of publishing. The present volume, which records the 1979-80 exhibition of seventy-nine Still paintings, dating from 1942 to 1978, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art-the largest exhibition of his work ever held-is the most comprehensive book on Still's work and thus an important document of twentieth-century art.Although Still has always kept aloof from the stereotyping nomenclature of schools and movements, he has had a powerful impact on contemporary art. His monumental canvases-bold forms saturated with intense color-are of surpassing scale and power. It is easy to understand why Still prefers the extended coverage that is generally possible in a museum environment: his works are charged with a sustaining energy that relates them to one another over the almost forty years that their creation spans, and when viewed seriatim they convey a transcendent narrative quality.Each of the seventy-nine paintings in the Metropolitan Museum's exhibition is reproduced here as a full-page or fold-out color-plate and is fully documented. Many other major works by Still are illustrated in black and white. Notes by the artist, selected letters from his files, and a biographical outline are accompanied by documentary photographs. The book contains a preface by Philippe de Montebello, director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and an enlightening introduction by the eminent art critic Katharine Kuh |
| Notes |
Catalog of the exhibition held Nov. 17, 1979-Feb. 3, 1980 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page 213 |
| Subject |
Still, Clyfford, 1904-1980.
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Still, Clyfford, 1904-1980 -- Exhibitions.
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Still, Clyfford, 1904-1980 -- Exhibitions.
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Painting, American -- Exhibitions.
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Painting, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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| Author |
O'Neill, John Philip, 1931-
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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| LC no. |
79019696 |
| ISBN |
0870992139 |
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0870992147 (paperback) |
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