Imagining landscapes : paintings by Helen Frankenthaler, 1952-1976
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Imagining landscapes : paintings by Helen Frankenthaler, 1952-1976
Gagosian, c2021
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Exhibition catalog
Published on the occation of the exhibition held at Gagosian, London, June 17-August 28, 2021
Includes bibliographical references
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Description
Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) has long been recognised as one of the great American artists of the twentieth century. A member of the second generation of postwar American abstract painters, she is widely credited with expanding the possibilities of abstraction through her invention of the soak-stain technique, while at times referencing figuration and landscape in highly personal ways. This volume explores references to landscape in Frankenthaler's paintings over a period spanning more than two decades, beginning in 1952, just prior to her breakthrough to stain painting. Focusing on fourteen works, it examines an extraordinary variety of gesture, from linear drawing to areas of lush, stained colour and flatter, more opaque applications of paint. An essay by art historian Robert Slifkin considers the complex evocations of space in Frankenthaler's works of this period. Richly illustrated with full-colour plates, details, and documentary photographs, Imagining Landscapes offers a close and detailed look at the artist's approach to painting over this twenty-five-year period.
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