Hans Hofmann (1880-1966), renowned painter and master teacher, clarified perennial issues in painting, for his thoughts on art evolved through his observation of the masters of all cultures.Color Creates Light: Studies with Hans Hofmannreveals an astonishing era during which Hofmann's ateliers in Munich, and later in New York and Provincetown, drew talented artists-as well as critics, dealers, collectors, and curators-who in turn transmitted and transmuted his ideas across Europe, America, Canada, and beyond. The decade Hofmann painted in Paris, caught up in the whirlwind of art movements before World War I, enabled him to explain Cubism to the avant garde of Munich and New York, catalyzing the later Abstract Expressionism. His interactions with younger generations encouraged the development of some of the most significant artists and educators of the time. Dickey's absorbing account, illustrated with archival photographs and animated by interviews with former students, allows readers the ultimate privilege, to listen as artists talk shop. From how he taught to what he taught, the inner workings of the visual language are essential reading for anyone involved in composition, whether visual, verbal, architectural, musical, cinematic, or choreographic .

Color Creates Light: Studies with Hans Hofmann

Tina Dickey

University of California Press

Color Creates Light: Studies with Hans Hofmann brings together the man, the schools, the painting, the ideas, and the teaching. Jed Perl of The New Republic calls this book "enormously important... nothing less than the missing chapter in the history of the period," for Hofmann's decade of painting in Paris prior to World War I, combined with his observations of the masters of all cultures, enabled him to explain Cubism to the avant-garde and catalyzed the later Abstract Expressionism. In the ateliers of German emigrant Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) in Munich, New York and Provincetown, talented students later to become some of the most significant artists and educators of the time rubbed shoulders with critics, collectors, and curators, who in turn transmitted and transmuted Hofmann s ideas across Europe, America, Canada, and beyond. From how Hofmann taught to what he taught, artists talk shop about the inner workings of the visual language, required reading for those engaged in creative composition, whether visual, verbal, musical, architectural, cinematic, or choreographic.

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Trillistar Interarts, Inc.

Product Description 
The Journals appear here in their most complete form to date . . . the first entries made in 1950, three years after he enrolled in the art school run by Hans Hofmann, whose teaching so profoundly affected Stout's thinking and practice. Stout used his writings to define his aesthetic ideas. The last entires are from 1966, by which time all the fundamental elements of the artist's approach had come sharply into focus, and many of his most important works were behind him. The Journals are the most articulate writings by an artist since those of Delacroix. They reflect an artist's evolution and refelect aspects of the inner worlds of all artists: investigations into philosophy, politics, literature, the inter-relationships of art forms; the history of aesthetics; the visual expression of balance. torque and tension; the relationship of abstract art to the natural world. Myron Stout (1908-1987) studied intermittently with Hans Hofman for several years in New York and Provincetown, Mass., and was mentored and befriended by him. He started exhibiting in the early 1950s at the height of th Ab-Ex movement, pursuing his own style of small scale, geometric, purist (although deeply colored), unemotional paintings, following in the tradition of Mondrian. By 1954 his focus had changed to black and white iconic shapes which established his place in American art. He had a retrospective in 1980 at the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY); his works have been widely exhibited in the U.S. and Europe. 
 Review 
Myron Stout's Journals is a book that every art student should read—and that many artists would profit from. --Hilton Kramer, The New York Observer. April 4, 2005\nArtists and other interested parties should take comfort in the publication of selections from Stout's Journals. --Roberta Smith, The New York Times, April 1,2005 
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"The Journals appear here in their most complete form to date. . . the first entries date from 1950, three years after he enrolled in the art school run by Hans Hofmann, whose teaching so profoundly affected Stout's thinking and practice. . . . He used his writings to define his aesthetic ideas. The last entries are from 1966, by which time all the fundamental elements of the artist's approach had come sharply into focus, and many of his most important works were behind him."

Selections from the Journals of Myron Stout

Dickey, Tina

Individual Artists

Midmarch Arts Press

Hofmann was one of the most influential European artists in the birth of American abstract expressionism. This catalogue contains the pieces that Hofmann conceived to decorate the church in Chimbote, Perú, commissioned to the Catalan architect Josep-Lluís Sert but never built.This publication extensively documents the proposal in its historical context, aiming to offer a wider interpretation on the twentieth-century project of a renewed collaboration between art and architecture.

Hans Hofmann: The Chimbote Project

Xavier Costa

Eric Mumford

Martí Peran

Maurici Pla

Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona

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