Research Catalog

Title

Back to black : black in current painting = Schwarz in der aktuellen Malerei / [edited by Veit Görner ... et al.; texts by Veit Görner ... et al.].

Publication

[Heidelberg] : Kehrer ; [Hannover] : Kestnergesellschaft, 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Görner, Veit
• Takis, George Frederick.
• Taylor, Jennifer

Description

191 p. : ill. (some col.); 33 cm.

Summary

"With twenty-one international contemporary artists, Back to Black examines the significance of black in recent painting. Black as a color in its own right only came into acceptance again in the twentieth century amongst artists such as Matisse and, later, Rauschenberg, Rothko, and Stella." "Black has been a challenge to painters of all eras - and not only because of its symbolism. Black is the absence of color. Even perceiving it is difficult, because it is hard to see the contrast between different nuances, and light reflecting off it tends to make it look shiny, even white."--Jacket

Series Statement

Katalog (Kestner-Gesellschaft) ; 2008

Uniform Title

Katalog (Kestner-Gesellschaft) ; 2008.

Alternative Title

• Black in current painting
• Schwarz in der aktuellen Malerei

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Black in art > Exhibitions
• Painting, German > 21st century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• "Translation / Übersetzung, George Frederick Takis, Jennifer Taylor"--P. [192].
• Exhibition catalog.
• Series entry missing in the book.

Language (note)

• Translated from German to English.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Black is a color = Schwarz ist eine Farbe / Veit Görner -- Black as a cultural statement = Schwarz als kulturelles Statement / Lutz Hieber -- Pablo Alonso -- Jānis Avotiņš -- Armin Boehm -- Rafał Bujnowski -- André Butzer -- Philipp Haager -- Gregor Hildebrandt -- Andreas Hofer -- Udomsak Krisanamis -- Rezi van Lankveld -- Victor Man -- Jonathan Meese -- Peter Peri -- Zbigniew Rogalski -- Pat Rosenmeier -- Wilhelm Sasnal -- Yehudit Sasportas -- Emanuel Seitz -- Florian Süssmayr -- Ned Vena -- Thomas Zipp -- Heart of darkness : the monochrome and the image in black painting = Herz der Finsternis : Monochromie und Bildhaftigkeit in schwarzer Malerei / Caroline Käding -- The silent eloquence of the color black or notes from the training camp of art = Die schweigsame Beredsamkeit der Farbe schwarz oder Notizen aus dem Trainingslager der Kunst / Frank-Thorsten Moll.

ISBN

• 9783868280104
• 3868280103

OCLC

233544459

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library