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Jack Whitten : the Greek Alphabet paintings

Title
Jack Whitten : the Greek Alphabet paintings / edited by Donna De Salvo, Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, and Deirdre O'Dwyer.
Author
Whitten, Jack, 1939-2018
Publication
New York, NY : Dia Art Foundation, [2023]

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Additional Authors
  • De Salvo, Donna M.
  • Guidelli-Guidi, Matilde
  • O'Dwyer, Deirdre
  • Dia:Beacon (Art museum), host institution.
Description
231 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm
Summary
"The first-ever publication to delve deeply into Jack Whitten's mid-1970s Greek Alphabet painting series, this volume will include critical essays by curators, artists, and scholars; never-before published writings by Whitten and related archival materials; and a fully illustrated plate section of the Greek Alphabet paintings. In the exhibition's companion publication, art historical insight into the unprecedented achievement of the Greek Alphabet paintings and related works on paper is provided in essays by art historian Courtney J. Martin and Dia curators Donna De Salvo and Matilde Guidelli-Guidi. Poetic reflections on Whitten's art, biography, and cultural importance are provided in the contributions of artists Fred Moten and Gregg Bordowitz. Previously unpublished materials from Whitten's archives, including his own personal writings, supplement this unprecedented publication. In his lifetime, Whitten never had the opportunity to exhibit more than a handful of these works. In presenting a significant number of these paintings together for the first time-with forty-two color plates representing the sixty-some paintings in the series-Jack Whitten: The Greek Alphabet Series makes possible a fuller appreciation of the formal and material permutations of Whitten's practice"--
Subject
  • Whitten, Jack, 1939-2018 > Exhibitions
  • African American painters > Exhibitions
  • African American artists > Exhibitions
  • Artists > United States > Exhibitions
  • Painting, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Painting, American > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Painting, Abstract > United States > Exhibitions
Note
  • Published in conjunction with exhibition Jack Whitten: The Greek Alphabet paintings at Dia Beacon, Beacon, New York, November 18, 2022 - July, 10, 2023.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Call Number
ND237.W6234
ISBN
  • 9780944521991
  • 0944521991
OCLC
  • 1374494397
  • on1374494397
  • SCSB-14553092
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries