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Hans Hofmann : circa 1950 / edited by Michael Rush and Catherine Morris ; [text by Michael Rush, Catherine Morris, and Irving Sandler].

Title
Hans Hofmann : circa 1950 / edited by Michael Rush and Catherine Morris ; [text by Michael Rush, Catherine Morris, and Irving Sandler].
Author
Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966
Publication
Waltham, MA : The Rose Art Museum, c2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Rush, Michael
  • Morris, Catherine
  • Sandler, Irving, 1925-
  • Rose Art Museum
Description
143 p. : col. ill.; 30 cm.
Summary
"Celebrated for his exuberant, color-packed canvases, and legendarily influential as a teacher to several generations of artists - first in his native Germany, then in New York and Provincetown - Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) looms large indeed over postwar American painting. Circa 1950 accompanies The Rose Art Museum's examination of the nine studies for murals that Hofmann produced for the Chimbote Project, architect Josep Sert's 1950 Peruvian urban planning project. These works show Hofmann hitting an apex in his art: his canvasses spill over with gloriously messy energy, and palpable physicality, as they riff on strong, anchoring, circular, angular and cruciform forms. This full-color catalogue embellishes images from the project with essays by curators Michael Rush and Catherine Morris, and renowned critic Irving Sandler."--BOOK JACKET.
Alternative Title
Circa 1950
Subject
  • Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966 > Exhibitions
  • Rose Art Museum
  • Waltham (Mass.) > Rose Art Museum
  • 1900-1999
  • Art, American > 20th century
  • Art, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Art, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs
Note
  • Published on the occasion of an exhibition held from January 14 to April 5, 2009.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Hans Hofmann, circa 1950 : painter & writer / Michael Rush -- The artist and his time / Catherine Morris -- Hans Hofmann, I hate to repeat myself / Irving Sandler -- Paintings -- Drawings.
ISBN
  • 9780976159346
  • 0976159341
OCLC
  • 310122522
  • SCSB-10234425
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library