Research Catalog

Title

Hans Hofmann : the nature of abstraction / Lucinda Barnes, with contributions by Ellen G. Landau and Michael Schreyach.

Publication

• [Berkeley, California] : University of California Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive; Oakland : University of California Press, [2019]
• ©2019

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Barnes, Lucinda
• Landau, Ellen G.
• Schreyach, Michael, 1970-
• Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966.
• Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, host institution

Description

183 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

"The Nature of Abstraction: Hans Hofmann will present the most comprehensive examination to date of Hofmann's prolific and innovative artistic practice, including works from public and private collections across North American and Europe, the exhibition will feature 80 paintings and works on paper by Hofmann from 1930 through the end of his life in 1966. The accompanying book will offer a fresh and revealing assessment of the whole of Hofmann's painterly career. The Nature of Abstraction builds on new scholarship published over the past ten years and the 2014 'Catalogue Raisonné' to present Hofmann as a unique synthesis of student, artist, teacher, and mentor who transcended generations and continents. His singular artistic achievement drew on artistic influences and innovations that spanned two world wars and transatlantic avant-gardes. The exhibition and accompanying book will present a newly balanced presentation of Hofmann's artistic arc, showing the interconnectedness and continuity in his work of European and American influences from the early twentieth century through the advent of Abstract Expressionism"--Provided by publisher.

Uniform Title

Hans Hofmann (University of California Press)

Subjects

• Abstract expressionism
• Exhibition catalogs
• Abstract expressionism > Exhibitions
• Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966 > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Includes index.
• "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction, organized and presented by the University of California Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The nature of abstraction: Hans Hofmann / Lucinda Barnes -- When vision becomes gesture: Hans Hofmann in the 1940s / Ellen G. Landau -- Spacing expression / Michael Schreyach.

Call Number

JQF 19-602

ISBN

• 9780520294479
• 0520294475

LCCN

• 2018019710
• 40028933099

OCLC

1039112702

Title

Hans Hofmann : the nature of abstraction / Lucinda Barnes, with contributions by Ellen G. Landau and Michael Schreyach.

Publisher

[Berkeley, California] : University of California Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive; Oakland : University of California Press, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Barnes, Lucinda, editor, contributor.

Landau, Ellen G., contributor.

Schreyach, Michael, 1970- contributor.

Container of (Work): Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966. Works. Selections (Barnes)

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, host institution.

Other Standard Identifier

40028933099

Research Call Number

JQF 19-602