Wolf Kahn
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (998 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0810963221 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 164 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Absorbing the lessons of Van Gogh and Pierre Bonnard, he achieved in his mature work an original vision concerned with the direct, sensual experience of color. His serene late pictures of woods and sunsets radiate an air of spiritual transcendence. one year later. Painter/critic Finkelstein illuminates the dialogue between abstraction and representation in Kahn's work. Copyright 1996 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. In this exceptionally attractive monograph featuring 100 color plates, art critic and novelist Spring traces Kahn's wildly exuberant experimentation in an informal ch
Karen Wilkin is a curator and critic. She is a contributor to the New Criterion, Art in America, and the Wall Street Journal. Justin Spring is a novelist and art critic. His work has been published in Art Forum, the New York Times, and the Village Voice. The late Louis Finkelstein, artist and critic, was a professor emeritus at Queens College, City Uni
Beautiful I had never even heard of Wolf Kahn until I saw this book at a local store. I looked through it fell in love with the art and had to have it. I recieved the book as a present(ordered from amazon--saved 15 bucks or so) and loved it. It has great info on Kahns life and comments on sty. Superb reproductions and interesting commentary Jake Stanley I saw Wolf Kahn's work for the first time this year at the Ameringer Yohe gallery and found it inspiring and exciting. Because Kahn is now 81 years old, the story of his life and careers spans several important art movements including Color Field and Abstract Expressionism. Early on. Judd Nelson said Five Stars. nice
The text presents an overview of Kahn's life and career - his childhood in Germany, his study at the Hans Hofman school, his early success as a latter-day Expressionist, and his ten years as a painter of austere, tonalist canvases, before he turned to the luminous landscapes that established his reputation. There is also an analytical essay by the painter and critic Louis Finkelstein which discusses the origins and value of Kahn's fusion of abstraction and representation.. In the 1950s and 1960s a group of young artists forged a fresh, representational art that made use of the Abstract Expressioni