Art and objecthood : essays and reviews /
By: Fried, Michael.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998Description: xviii, 333 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0226263185 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780226263199:; 9780226263182 (cloth : alk. paper); 0226263193 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780226263199 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Art, Modern -- 20th century | ArtDDC classification: 709.04Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 709.04 FRI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0068910 |
Mainly reprints of the art criticism written by the author between 1961 and 1977.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-330) and index.
Shape as form: Frank Stella's irregular polygons -- Morris Louis -- Jules Olitski -- Art and objecthood -- New work by Anthony Caro -- Ronald Davis: surface and illusion -- Two sculptures by Anthony Caro -- Recent work by Kenneth Noland -- Caro's abstractness -- Problems of polychromy: new sculptures by Michael Bolus -- Larry Poon's new paintings -- Anthony Caro's table sculptures, 1966-77 -- Three American painters: Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Frank Stella -- Anthony Caro -- Frank Stella -- New York letter: Oldenburg, Chamberlain -- New York letter: Louis, Chamberlain and Stella, Indiana -- New York letter: Warhol.
New York letter: Johns -- New York letter: Hofmann -- New York letter: Noland, Thiebaud -- New York letter: Hofmann, Davis -- New York letter: Kelly, Poons -- New York letter: Judd -- New York letter: De Kooning drawings -- New York letter: Olitski, Jenkins, Thiebaud, Twombly -- New York letter: Brach, Chamberlain, Irwin.
Contains 27 essays and reviews defining the contours of late modernism in the visual arts. Ranging from brief reviews to extended essays, the writings establish a set of basic terms for understanding key issues in high modernism. An extended introductory essay by the author clarifies his views.