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Tomma Abts

Title: Tomma Abts / edited by James Rondeau and Lekha Hileman Waitoller ; with essays by James Rondeau, Kate Nesin, and Juliane Rebentisch ; accompanying an exhibition organized by Lizzie Carey-Thomas, James Rondeau, and Lekha Hileman Waitoller.
Publication: Chicago, Illinois : The Art Institute of Chicago, [2018]

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Description

176 pages : color illustrations; 35 cm

Summary

"With a rigorous approach and self-imposed limitations to both scale and composition, Tomma Abts (b. 1967) has reinvigorated painterly abstraction and its relevance within contemporary art. Using a fixed canvas size and a vertical format, Abts deploys basic formal elements such as arcs, circles, planes, and stripes to create powerful works that are at once subtle and eccentric. This extraordinary book, designed in collaboration with the artist herself, is a substantial and deeply insightful treatment of her career to date and features sixty works made over the past decade. Essays not only contextualize Abts's work within an art-historical framework of methods, process, and style, but also examine her paintings' philosophical and psychological dimensions and their embodiment of a creative process that transcends the specifics of any particular work. The beautifully designed and illustrated exhibition catalogue examines both the art-historical framework of Tomma Abts's painting as well as its deep philosophical and psychological dimensions. James Rondeau is president and Eloise W. Martin Director of the Art Institute of Chicago. Lizzie Carey-Thomas is head of programs at the Serpentine Galleries in London. Kate Nesin is an independent art historian. Juliane Rebentisch is a professor of philosophy and aesthetics at the Offenbach University of Art and Design in Berlin"--

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Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

"Tomma Abts was published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and the Serpentine Galleries."

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JQG 18-792

ISBN

9780300233872
0300233876

LCCN

2018012414

OCLC

1029076082

Title

Tomma Abts / edited by James Rondeau and Lekha Hileman Waitoller ; with essays by James Rondeau, Kate Nesin, and Juliane Rebentisch ; accompanying an exhibition organized by Lizzie Carey-Thomas, James Rondeau, and Lekha Hileman Waitoller.

Publisher

Chicago, Illinois : The Art Institute of Chicago, [2018]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Rondeau, James, editor, author.

Waitoller, Lekha Hileman, editor.

Art Institute of Chicago, organizer, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQG 18-792

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