Research Catalog

Title

Color chart : reinventing color 1950 to today / text by Ann Temkin and Briony Fer.

Author

Temkin, Ann.

Publication

New York : Museum of Modern Art ; London : Thames & Hudson [distributor], 2008.

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Additional Authors

Fer, Briony

Description

247 p. : col. ill.; 32 cm.

Summary

"Color Chart addresses the impact of standardized mass-produced color on the art of the past sixty years. Taking the commercial color chart as its central metaphor, the book chronicles an important artistic shift that took place during the middle of the twentieth century: a frank acknowledgment of color as a matter-of-fact element rather than a vehicle of spiritual or emotional content. Collected here are forty-four artists who explore in their works two senses of the phrase "ready-made color": color bought off the shelf, rather than mixed on a palette, and color assigned by chance or arbitrary system, rather than composed with traditional chromatic harmonies in mind." "This volume traces the lineage of the questions provoked by artists' new relationship to color, and the variety of answers that were the result."--Jacket.

Subject

Color in art > Exhibitions

Note

• Published to accompany the exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, running from 2 March to 12 May 2008.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Preface and acknowledgments ; Color shift / Ann Temkin -- Color manual / Briony Fer -- Marcel Duchamp -- Ellsworth Kelly -- Yves Klein -- François Morellet -- Robert Rauschenberg -- Jasper Johns -- Andy Warhol -- Frank Stella -- Jim Dine -- John Chamberlain -- Giulio Paolini -- Gerhard Richter -- Blinky Palermo -- On Kawara -- Alighiero Boetti -- Michel Parmentier -- Daniel Buren -- Niele Toroni -- Bruce Nauman -- Dan Graham -- Ed Ruscha -- Sol LeWitt -- Jennifer Bartlett -- Richard Serra -- Lawrence Weiner -- André Cadere -- Bas Jan Ader -- Jan Dibbets -- John Baldessari -- Dan Flavin -- Donald Judd -- David Batchelor -- Carrie Mae Weems -- Byron Kim -- Katharina Fritsch -- Mike Kelley -- Christopher Williams -- Sherrie Levine -- Damien Hirst -- Liz Deschenes -- Walid Raad -- Jim Lambie -- Angela Bulloch -- Cory Arcangel.

ISBN

• 9780870707315 (hbk.)
• 0870707310 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 297154835
• SCSB-10120164

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library