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Frank Bowling : mappa mundi

Title
Frank Bowling : mappa mundi / edited by Okwui Enwezor ; with contributions by Frank Bowling, Okwui Enwezor, Rose Jones, Kobena Mercer, Anna Schneider, Zoe Whitley, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
Publication
  • Munich, Germany : Haus der Kunst ; Munich, Germany ; London, England ; New York, New York : Prestel, [2017]
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
  • Bowling, Frank, 1934-
  • Enwezor, Okwui
  • Mercer, Kobena, 1960-
  • Schneider, Anna (Art historian)
  • Whitley, Zoé
  • Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette, 1977-
  • Jones, Rose
  • Haus der Kunst München, host institution, issuing body, publisher
  • Irish Museum of Modern Art (Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland), host institution
  • Sharjah Art Foundation, host institution
  • Prestel Verlag, publisher
Description
286 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, facsimiles; 30 cm
Summary
Featuring numerous works and rarely seen large-scale paintings from Frank Bowling's sweeping 60-year career, this book highlights the artist's magnificent use of sensuous color and rich texture in pictures that are at once absorbing and tactile. When they were first exhibited in the late 1960s, Frank Bowling's immense "map paintings" were widely celebrated for their vibrant color and subtle modulation of the painted surface. These works, like many in Bowling's oeuvre, draw on the principle of mapping to create a kind of mental geography, woven throughout with personal and historic imagery. This collection of paintings from throughout Bowling's career features exquisite reproductions that illuminate his experiments with material and the paintings' wide range of pictorial possibilities. Accompanied by an extensive curatorial survey, art historical contributions, prose poem, biographical visual essay, as well as the collected writings and correspondence of the artist, this book offers an in depth exploration of Bowling's career and aspects of his journey from his home in Guyana to London and New York. It also highlights references to the natural world and his use of classical and literary symbolism. This book creates a true mappa mundi--an evolving map of Bowling's inner and physical worlds.
Alternative Title
Mappa mundi
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Records and correspondence.
  • Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Haus der Kunst, Munich, June 23, 2017-January 7, 2018; IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art, March 24-July 8, 2018; and Sharjah Art Foundation, September-December 2018.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-281) and index.
Contents
Directors' Foreword / Okwui Enwezor and Sarah Glennie -- Mappa Mundi: Frank Bowling's Cognitive Abstraction / Okwui Enwezor -- Charting the Atlantic Sublime / Kobena Mercer -- Known Waters: Frank Bowling's Painterly Insights and Outlooks / Zoe Whitley -- Works in the Exhibition / Frank Bowling -- To Walk the Waters of the World / Lynette Yiadom-Boakye -- Selected Works: 1960-2015 / Frank Bowling -- Selected Writings: 1969-1993 / Frank Bowling -- Correspondence--Frank Bowling and Clement Greenberg / with an introduction by Rose Jones -- Frank Bowling: An Annotated Biography / Anna Schneider.
Call Number
Sc+ F 18-88
ISBN
  • 9783791356587
  • 3791356585
  • 9783791367699
  • 3791367692
OCLC
982089682
Title
Frank Bowling : mappa mundi / edited by Okwui Enwezor ; with contributions by Frank Bowling, Okwui Enwezor, Rose Jones, Kobena Mercer, Anna Schneider, Zoe Whitley, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
Publisher
Munich, Germany : Haus der Kunst ; Munich, Germany ; London, England ; New York, New York : Prestel, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-281) and index.
Event
Frank Bowling: Mappa Mundi" : June 23, 2017-January 7, 2018, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany.
Frank Bowling: Mappa Mundi" : March 24-July 8, 2018, IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland.
Frank Bowling: Mappa Mundi" : September-December, 2018, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Added Author
Bowling, Frank, 1934- artist, author.
Enwezor, Okwui, author, editor.
Mercer, Kobena, 1960- author.
Schneider, Anna (Art historian), author.
Whitley, Zoé, author.
Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette, 1977- author.
Jones, Rose, contributor.
Bowling, Frank, 1934- artist. Paintings. Selections.
Haus der Kunst München, host institution, issuing body, publisher.
Irish Museum of Modern Art (Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland), host institution.
Sharjah Art Foundation, host institution.
Prestel Verlag, publisher.
Research Call Number
Sc+ F 18-88
JQF 17-2399
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