Franz Kline (1910-1962): A Survey of Works

Franz Kline (1910-1962): A Survey of Works
ISBN-10
8884918669
ISBN-13
9788884918666
Category
Art / Individual Artists / General
Pages
424
Language
English
Published
2004
Publisher
Skira
Authors
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Franz Kline

Description

This landmark exhibition catalog surveys the entire career of one of the last great painters of high modernism, Franz Kline. It features over 70 major works, including paintings, drawings, sketches, and documentary material. The works included have been selected from collections from around the world with the intent of showing all of Kline's achievements, from the early figurative oil paintings of the late 1930s and 1940s to his breakthroughs in Abstract Expressionism seen in a selection of his large-scale black-and-white works. This volume traces Kline's art from its beginnings to his last painting in 1961, just a few months before the artist's death.
Kline, along with Pollock and Motherwell, was at the center of Abstract Expressionism and "action painting" in the America. This volume demonstrates in the monumental canvases, as well as in his many small-scale sketches made on paper, newspaper, and even telephone book pages, how Kline embraces gesture, experience, and emotion with direct and raw energy.

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