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Harold Ancart : traveling light
- Title
- Harold Ancart : traveling light / [with essay by Laura McLean-Ferris ; and interview by Bob Nickas].
- Publication
- New York, New York : David Zwirner Books, [2021]
- ©2021
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | ND673.A53 A4 2021g | Off-site |
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- Description
- 93 pages : color illustrations; 26 x 30 cm
- Summary
- "Ancart often paints subjects that naturally invite contemplation, such as the horizon, clouds, flowers, flames, and icebergs. His newest body of work captures the experience of landscape seen in motion or from a distance: trees blurred while driving past, a far-off inky-black sea, an evocative Martian mountain range. Recalling René Magritte, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, and Piet Mondrian, who approached this subject matter in distinct ways, Ancart blurs form and color, figure and ground, and figuration and abstraction. Reproduced here in magnificent foldouts, two multipanel canvases situate the viewer between a mountainscape and a seascape, both monumental in scale. Ancart segments the seascape with a stark horizon line, dividing sky and ocean. Like other comparable motifs within the artist's oeuvre, the vividly colored cloudy sky functions in an anthropomorphic way, alluding to the endless possibilities and personalities of organic forms. Including an interview with the artist by Bob Nickas, this catalogue offers insight into Ancart's frank reflections on painting, writing, nature, and more. The publication also features a new essay by Laura McLean-Ferris. Taken together, the works in Traveling Light meditate on the expansive possibilities of painting."--Provided by publisher.
- Alternative Title
- Traveling light
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Note
- On the occasion of the exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, September 10-October 17, 2020.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Preface / Thor Shannon -- Traveling light -- Plates -- Contre-jour / Laura McLean-Ferris -- Catch-as-catch-can : Harold Ancart in conversation with Bob Nickas.
- ISBN
- 1644230518
- 9781644230510
- LCCN
- 99990317339
- OCLC
- on1236258784
- 1236258784
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries