| Art as Art: The Selected Writings of AD Reinhardt Contributor(s): Rose, Barbara (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0520076702 ISBN-13: 9780520076709 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $31.63 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 1991 Annotation: Rose in the introduction suggests that Reinhardt's ultimate value is as 'a prophet of the realization that high art can only endure as spiritual art.' Well, maybe, but his copious writings are also exuberant, ironic, rancorous and parodistic and, as such, a marvelous commentary of the recent art world. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - General - Art | Criticism & Theory - Art | American - General |
| Dewey: 709 |
| LCCN: 91012000 |
| Series: Documents of Twentieth-Century Art |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.88" W x 8.21" (0.71 lbs) 253 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ad Reinhardt is probably best known for his black paintings, which aroused as much controversy as admiration in the American art world when they were first exhibited in the 1950s. Although his ideas about art and life were often at odds with those of his contemporaries, they prefigured the ascendance of minimalism. Reinhardt's interest in the Orient and in religion, his strong convictions about the value of abstraction, and his disgust with the commercialism of the art world are as fresh and valid today as they were when he first expressed them. |