Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews

Barnett Newman's writings reveal him to be an impassioned and articulate analyst of art and society who never hesitated to make his views known and always stood by them. To understand Newman's unique place in the culture of the twentieth century, we must know both his paintings and his words—a knowledge made possible by this long-awaited volume. "Barnett Newman [1905-1970] was a thinker who chose to develop his ideas both in painting and in writing. He was also a citizen who made his acts of painting and writing political. And he was an artist."—Richard Schiff, from the Introduction

Arts & Photography

Newman, Barnett

History & Criticism

University of California Press

One of the most enduringly influential Abstract Expressionists, Barnett Newman (1905-1970) took the genre to a startling new sphere. His tough, spare, emotive paintings were misunderstood and reviled by most critics when they first appeared in 1950 but came to command wide respect and even veneration by the end of the 1960s. Seemingly simple on first viewing, the paintings are in fact richly complicated and unexpectedly diverse. Newman aspired to breadth and nobility in his works, infusing them with deep meaning and producing a powerful physical presence through his mastery of expansive spatial effects and evocative color. While pursuing his personal quest, he managed to challenge, and profoundly change, the parameters of painting.

Barnett Newman

Temkin, Ann

Shiff, Richard

Individual Artists

Philadelphia Museum of Art

NY: PaceWildenstein, 1994. folded card covers, as issued. 107pp., 54 plates, 12 figures, mostly color., essay by jeremy strick. reference material. Exhibition Catalogue. PaceWildenstein

The Sublime Is Now: The Early Work of Barnett Newman

Strick, Jeremy

Walker Art Center

St. Louis Art Museum

Pace Gallery

Pace Wildenstein

Bilder, Skulpturen, Graphik.

Zweite, Armin

Hatje Cantz Verlag

Unpainted Pictures is the title of a fascinating watercolors series painted by Emil Nolde from 1938 through 1945. Nolde created these works in the seclusion of his own home in Seebll, after his works had been confiscated by the Nazis and he himself had been forbidden to paint. He lent many of them to friends for safekeeping, in order to protect himself and his art from Gestapo raids. These small, free, imaginative works were ''unpainted'' in the sense that they did not officially exist and were not supposed to exist--also, Nolde hoped to expand on them at a later date. He never offered any of these watercolors for sale, and today this collection--which has become, for many, the summary and epitome of his work--resides at the Nolde Foundation in Seebll. All of the 104 watercolors in the series are presented here, along with a journal, consisting of dated notes, thoughts, questions and dreams, which forms a record of the period in which the Unpainted Pictures were being created. Gorgeous, diverse and quietly moving, these Unpainted Pictures continue to be nothing short of a revelation.

Emil Nolde: Unpainted Pictures

Reuther, Manfred

Nolde, Jolanthe

Nolde, Emil

Reference

Hatje Cantz

Onnasch Collection

Graham, Dan

Groys, Boris

Salazar, Jaime

Rauschenberg, Robert

Kienholz, Edward

Motherwell, Robert

OLDENBURG, Claes

Spuybroek, Lars

TWOMBLY, Cy

Oosterhuis, Kas

Smithson, Robert

Flavin, Dan

Hofmann, Hans

Weiner, Lawrence

HAACKE, Hans

Rhoades, Jason

Louis, Morris

Kipphoff, Petra

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