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The music of color : Sam Gilliam 1967-1973 : Kunstmuseum Basel, June 9 - September 30, 2018
- Title
- The music of color : Sam Gilliam 1967-1973 : Kunstmuseum Basel, June 9 - September 30, 2018 / edited by Jonathan P. Binstock and Josef Helfenstein.
- Author
- Gilliam, Sam, Jr., 1933-2022
- Publication
- Köln : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, [2018]
- New York, NY : Distribution Outside Europe, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
- ©2018
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | N6537.G492 A4 2018q Oversize | Off-site |
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- Description
- 191 pages : chiefly color illustrations; 31 cm +
- Summary
- Sam Gilliam is one of America's most prominent abstract painters. The catalogue puts the focus on the years between 1967 and 1973, the period of the greatest radicalism in Gilliam's oeuvre. The paintings he created during these years stand out for their monumentality and forceful use of color. The canvas becomes a medium that records traces of the production process and exhibits its own physicality. At a time when painting seemed to be indecline, Gilliam breathed new life into it; jazz was an important source of inspiration for his expressive and energetic style. 'The Music of Color' also probes the political and historical dimension of Gilliam's oeuvre. While the artist himself rarely comments on political issues, the works in his Martin Luther King series and Jail Jungle reflect the 1968 race riots and the highly polarized debate over black art and abstract painting in 1960s and 1970s' America. Exhibition: Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (09.06. - 30.09.2018).
- Uniform Title
- Paintings. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Paintings.
- Sam Gilliam 1967-1973 : Kunstmuseum Basel, June 9 - September 30, 2018
- Subject
- Gilliam, Sam, Jr., 1933-2022 > Exhibitions
- Gilliam, Sam, Jr., 1933-2022
- Gilliam, Sam 1933-2022
- 1900-1999
- Painting, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
- Painting, Abstract > United States > 20th century > Exhibitions
- Color-field painting > Exhibitions
- Color in art > Exhibitions
- Color-field painting
- Color in art
- Painting, Abstract
- Painting, American
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Interview
- Exhibition
- exhibition catalogs.
- interviews.
- Exhibition catalogs
- Interviews
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Interviews.
- Catalogues d'exposition.
- Note
- Exhibition catalog.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9783960983408
- 3960983409
- OCLC
- on1059129151
- 1059129151
- SCSB-9137345
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library