- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Abbeville Press; New edition edition (Feb 1 1994)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1558597700
- ISBN-13: 978-1558597709
- Product Dimensions: 28.8 x 24 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This was hailed as the definitive volume on artist Kline at its 1985 debut. Along with 170 illustrations (100 color, 70 b&w), the book includes interviews with Kline's friends and critics as well as material from his letters.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"A sympathetic, though unsparing, account of the artist's life is interwoven expertly with the history of his work, resulting in an exemplary study of a contemporary painter's career." (San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle)
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A COMPELLING STUDY,
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This review is from: Franz Kline: Cincinnati Art Museum (Hardcover)
Franz Kline (1910 - 1962), surely one of the most individual artists, began as a representational painter, focusing largely on landscapes. It was in the latter 1940s that he began his landmark exploration of abstractionism, achieving plaudits with his black and white presentations.Art historian and teacher Dr. Harry Gaugh spent some two decades researching the life and work of Kline. This amazing volume is testament to his study. "Franz Kline" holds over 170 illustrations and a fascinating account of the life of this landmark artist who died far too young at 51 years of age. Dr. Gaugh utilizes interviews and correspondence (including Kline's personal letters) to offer a vivid picture of the artist as a student in Boston and London , then later as a part of Greenwich Village where he executed bar murals to keep the wolf from the door. Kline's development as an artist is a compelling study, and an evocation of an important time in our cultural history. - Gail Cooke
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A COMPELLING STUDY,
By Gail Cooke - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Franz Kline: Cincinnati Art Museum (Hardcover)
Franz Kline (1910 - 1962), surely one of the most individual artists, began as a representational painter, focusing largely on landscapes. It was in the latter 1940s that he began his landmark exploration of abstractionism, achieving plaudits with his black and white presentations.Art historian and teacher Dr. Harry Gaugh spent some two decades researching the life and work of Kline. This amazing volume is testament to his study. "Franz Kline" holds over 170 illustrations and a fascinating account of the life of this landmark artist who died far too young at 51 years of age. Dr. Gaugh utilizes interviews and correspondence (including Kline's personal letters) to offer a vivid picture of the artist as a student in Boston and London , then later as a part of Greenwich Village where he executed bar murals to keep the wolf from the door. Kline's development as an artist is a compelling study, and an evocation of an important time in our cultural history. - Gail Cooke 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Complete Kline,
By Claude Reich - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Franz Kline: Cincinnati Art Museum (Hardcover)
This book is a very complete and enlightening survey of Kline's art. The author chronogically covers all the aspects of the artist's oeuvre and, though it was written some 22 years ago, this publication is a must-have for anyone interested in the abstract expressionist movement. Many major paintings are thoroughly described, the text quotes many friends of Kline's (dealers and critics)stating previously unpublished opinions and is a rich trove of information.The illustrations are unfortunately not as good as they would have been had the book been published more recently, which is why I do not give it 5 stars. 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Most Thorough Kline Volume To Date,
By disco75 "disco75" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Franz Kline: Cincinnati Art Museum (Hardcover)
This book was released a decade earlier as *The Vital Gesture* to accompany a Kline retrospective of 1985. As such, it is composed essentially as a review of the artwork, focusing on the shifts from figural to abstract painting, the mediums Kline used, the painterly techniques, and the topics of the paintings that can be discerned from what is known about Kline's life and companions. Gaugh uses an academic approach to compare the works contained within, a mix of color and B&W reproductions. The language is therefore skewed to art-historian and gallerist modes, slightly jargon-laden but generally accessible to the lay reader.Gaugh presents the most comprehensive source of biographical information about Kline available to readers. His goal is to theorize about the art, however, and he is not presenting a biography as such. The life of the man is not the theme, but merely supporting material in analyzing the paintings. Kline's motives, formative experiences, and relationships are not surveyed except anecdotally in service of understanding the art. In this way, it not until the last quarter of the book that it is mentioned that Kline's father committed suicide when he was 7, and that he lived in a fatherless-boys' boarding school for 11 years, even after his mother remarried. Such watershed events, like the years of institutionalization of his schizophrenic wife in a state hospital, cry out for a psychological biography of Kline, particularly at a time when readers have access to detailed tomes about Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko, etc. Until such time as a genuine biography arrives, Gaugh's volume is the most complete account of this well-regarded Cedar Bar habitue. |
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