A groundbreaking set of visual opposites for the toddler set, featuring the popular art of Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly's paintings and sculptures take center stage in this creative visual presentation of opposites. The pairings range from together/apart to vertical/horizontal, from full/empty to front/back [of a canvas!], providing readers with both expected and unexpected visual vocabulary. Images include Ellsworth's most famous works, as well as some lesser-known pieces, providing a stunning representation of colors and dimensions. Playfully written and created in partnership with the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation, this unique and stylish concept book marks the fifth title in the First Concepts with Fine Artists series.

Up, Down & Other Opposites: with Ellsworth Kelly (First Concepts With Fine Artists)

Children's Books

Kelly, Ellsworth

Arts, Music & Photography

Phaidon Press

The exceptional production quality of this book is rare in contemporary artist monographs and substantially enhances the experience of looking through the career of one of the most celebrated American artists of the postwar and contemporary movements. Text by John Coplans; 299 pages, 225 illustrations, 68 in full color.

Ellsworth Kelly

Arts & Photography

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

From dust jacket notes: "Kelly has long been recognized as one of the leading color abstractionists in contemporary American painting but his work in other media is scarcely known. As a printmaker, he enjoys an international reputation although o book has adequately covered his work in the field. His sensitive drawings and brilliant collages are little known and have never been extensively exhibited. This volume, containing a selection of his collages and drawings - with sixty full-color plates made directly from the original works, and a catalogue raisonne of all his lithographs through 1970, handsomely reveals Kelly as a master of these techniques. Like his paintings, these works reflect Kelly's preoccupation with color and form, dominant elements in his work since 1949. His studies of plants, flowers and frit demonstrate his tendency to reduce form to its elegant essence. His fascination with natural phenomena - the play of light on water, shadows and forms of pipes against a stone wall, the outline of a window against the sky - reveals itself in abstract collages composed of bright, pure colors, made since the early 50s in Paris. Kelly continues to develop endless permutations of shape and color, systematically conceived and pristinely executed. The result is an oeuvre which for twenty years has been ahead of its time."

Ellsworth Kelly; drawings, collages, prints (A Paul Bianchini book)

NEW YORK GRAPHIC SOCIETY

A gallery catalogue of works by Kelly, with an essay by Bois and a photographic essay by Shear. Spencertown is the small city north of New York where Kelly has lived since 1970 and from which he derived his interest in simple lines and architectural spaces.

Ellsworth Kelly: Spencertown

Biographies & Memoirs

Anthony d'Offay, London

Ellsworth Kelly, recent painting & sculpture: May 14 to July 31, 1990

65 Thompson Street

More intensely than any other artists of the 20th century, Matisse and Kelly focussed on the fragile architecture of the plant world.They were prolific in their output and both were driven by the desire to capture in line drawings the energy and rhythm of organic matter.Plant Drawings is a unique collection of work that clearly illustrates how each artist experimented with hundreds of different forms and motifs to achieve his desired effect. In some drawings the eye is captured and held, in others it is sent ricocheting away. Some forms are closed, others left open. Nothing seems settled and it is precisely this manifestation of tension between opposite poles that gives each piece an aura of incredible vitality.Masters unmatched, Matisse and Kelly, come together superbly in Plant Drawings, a remarkably beautiful book.

Plant Drawings

Matisse, Henri

Individual Artists

Gingko Pr Inc

Ellsworth Kelly first conceived Line Form Color in 1951 as a series of studies, both drawings and collages. Later that year he applied to the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation for a grant to produce a book, "an alphabet of plastic pictorial elements," but the application was not successful. With this volume, Kelly has brought Line Form Color to completion. Its forty plates correspond to the original collages. This slipcased edition also includes an essay by Harry Cooper, curator of modern art at the Harvard University Art Museums.

Line, Form, Color

History & Criticism

Harvard university Art Museums

Line form color: 1951

Ellsworth Kelly first conceived Line Form Color in 1951 as a series of studies, both drawings and collages. Later that year he applied to the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation for a grant to produce a book. "an alphabet of plastic pictorial elements, " but the application was not successful. With this volume, Kelly has brought Line Form Color to completion. Its forty plates correspond to the original collages. This edition also includes an essay by Harry Cooper, curator of modern art at the Harvard University Art Museums.

Line, Form, Color (French Edition)

Ellsworth Kelly: Die Jahre in Frankreich, 1948-1954 (German Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Prestel

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